Rachel Carson’s look at the dire effects of industrial and agricultural pollution birthed the modern environmental movement ...

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, 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 ...

Silent Spring is one of those books where many people think they know what it says, have opinions about it, even if they haven’t read it. It’s a science book that, when you sit down and crack it open, ...

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will open "Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: Rachel Carson's Environmental Vision" May 18–Oct. 4, a celebration of the unassuming environmentalist.

The publication in 1962 of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring drew public attention to how pesticides had killed much of North America’s songbirds. The book launched an international environmental ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...