Rachel Carson is the author of the best-seller “Silent Spring” and “The Sea Around Us,” which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom ...

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 ...

Lost in the mix of Supreme Court decisions handed down in late June was the justices’ ruling in favor of the pesticide manufacturer, Monsanto. The opinion should be a wake-up call to all concerned not ...

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 ...

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 ...

That was well understood by evolutionists early on, but it took a marine biologist and talented writer, Rachel Carson, to bring the pesticide problem to public attention and, incidentally, to launch ...

I’ve mentioned before that I live in Rachel Carson‘s old neighborhood and often hike in the Montgomery County, MD parks, where she spent time ruminating about the natural world. Given that I’m a ...

Hosted by Michael Bartley, this episode explores Rachel Carson’s life, legacy, and impact. Hosted by Michael Bartley, this episode features “Rachel Carson's Homestead,” produced and reported by Dave ...

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 ...