New Takes on the classics. Throughout our centennial year, we’re revisiting notable works from the archive. Sign up to receive them directly in your inbox. Before Carson turned to writing books, she ...

Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which captured the public’s imagination and led to a shift in the ...

The reception of Silent Spring: an introduction / Craig Waddell -- Chemical fallout: Silent Spring, radioactive fallout, and the environmental movement / Ralph H. Lutts -- An inventional archaeology ...

Read with us! KQED's Climate Book Club is taking up "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson. We will gather to discuss during the Night of Ideas at the San Francisco Public Library on April 11. Our guest ...

In 1962, a former marine biologist published a book that would alter the way millions of Americans, and eventually people around the world, understood humanity’s relationship with nature. The book ...

KQED takes on the seminal work in the context of the MAHA movement, PFAS, climate change and more during a discussion at the Night of Ideas on April 11. Silent Spring is one of those books where many ...

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will open "Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: Rachel Carson's Environmental Vision" ...

In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which captured the public’s imagination and led to a shift in the understanding of our relationship with the natural world. Her book ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in ...