1958: Science writer Rachel Carson writes to The New Yorker editor E.B. White suggesting that he write an article about the danger of pesticides. White demurs, but suggests that Carson write the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Remembrance of Earth's Past," a sci-fi book series by Chinese author Liu Cixin, grapples with some of the most fundamental ...

"Over increasingly large areas of the United States spring now comes unheralded by the return of birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird ...

In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring,” a bestselling book that asserted that overuse of pesticides was harming the environment and threatening human health. Carson ...

Over fifty-four years since it was first published, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring remains a divisive book. The exposé led to the birth of the modern environmental movement and the banning of DDT for ...

WHEN Rachel Carson attacked the wholesale use of insecticides and pesticides, particularly the chlorinated hydrocarbons, she took on some of the largest and certainly the most potent of our big ...

During her short life, Rachel Carson wrote four impressive books. One, Silent Spring, lit a beacon that continues to burn. Published 50 years ago after long years of work, Silent Spring (Houghton ...

Review of Silent Spring at 50: Reflections on an Environmental Classic, by Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss (PERC, 2012), 32 pages I have been writing about Rachel Carson’s infamous book Silent ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson wrote and published Silent Spring. Carson was ahead of her time. She said pesticides like DDT were damaging the environment and human health. Although ...

The modern environmentalist movement was launched at the beginning of June 1962, when excerpts from what would become Rachel Carson's anti-chemical landmark Silent Spring were published in The New ...