"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 ...

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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Carson’s scientific perspective and rigor created a work of substantial depth ...

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 ...

Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” is the book that gave birth to American environmentalism 50 years ago. It’s the book that raised the first red flag over the unregulated use of chemical pesticides that ...

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 ...

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 ...

A masterpiece of science and wonder, Rachel Carson’s book is a moral call to action. Would it have had the same impact if it were published today? Before all that she gave us in “Silent Spring,” ...