This month Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) proudly celebrates the 50th anniversary of its renaming in honor of the world-renowned marine biologist, author, environmentalist and former ...

Art At the Portrait Gallery: ‘Forces of Nature,’ for good and ill Portraiture exhibition features scientists, politicians, writers, artists and others who have helped advance — and, in some ...

Her love of nature had been instilled in her by her mother. Carson became a marine biologist and, in 1936, was hired as a scientist, writer, and editor for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries.

Best selling author, scientist, and conservationist Rachel Carson was an unlikely individual to become the spark that ignited the environmental movement of today. In an online talk set for 5:30 p ...

Mark Hamilton Lytle, Rachel Carson, Human Ecology Review, Vol. 23, No. 2, Special Issue: Human Ecology—A Gathering of Perspectives: Portraits from the Past—Prospects for the Future (2017), pp. 55-64 ...

Rachel Carson was an unlikely revolutionary. For 16 years, from 1936-1952, Carson had worked as a government biologist, writer and editor for the Bureau of Fisheries and later the U.S. Fish and ...