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In her final months, Carson, age 56, sickened from cancer treatments and in constant pain, still had a couple of remaining projects in mind. One of these was what she called the “wonder book.” ...
Rachel Carson's love of the natural world compelled her to complete Silent Spring, the book that helped launch the modern environmental movement.
Then in 1962, the book “Silent Spring,” by author and marine biologist Rachel Carson, used science to expose the “shadow of death” cast by DDT. More than 40 years before former vice ...
Sixty years ago, a talented biologist and writer working in Silver Spring, Md., published a book that changed the world for the better Rachel Carson was an unlikely revolutionary. For 16 years ...
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.
Something About the Sky by Rachel Carson, illus. by Nikki McClure. Candlewick Studio, $19.99 Mar. ISBN 978-1-5362-2870-0 ...
Rachel Carson, the power of wonder, and me. By Michael Sims The ocean was not the native habitat of Rachel Carson. She was born amid the tumbled hills near Pittsburgh, in Springdale, one of many ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Rachel Carson's book, "Silent Spring" was first published on September 27, 1962, and its impact caused a wave of change that is still felt 60 years later. Her voice was a ...
The historian, whose new book is “Silent Spring Revolution,” would also invite E.O. Wilson and Rachel Carson: “We could talk about the 11,000 bird species the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is ...
Even Carson, when she wrote the new preface for the revised 1961 edition of The Sea Around Us, couldn’t help but inject an urgent warning about the practice of dumping nuclear waste into the ocean.