She was an award-winning author of two best-selling books about the ocean--The Sea Around Us, published in 1951, and The Edge of the Sea, which was published four years later. When Rachel Carson ...

In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent ... which conveyed her love of the ocean to a general audience. Carson’s ability to understand complex scientific reports and her status ...

“Since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the world has known of DDT ... of DDT contamination in California’s coastal waters,” said Kristin Carden, an ocean scientist with the Center. “We need to better ...

In 1962, when environmentalist and author Rachel Carson penned Silent Spring ... There are no human sources near the Southern Ocean, but because of long-distance transport through the atmosphere ...

(from Silent Spring) Rachel Carson received a letter from a friend in Massachusetts in the summer of 1957. Her friend wrote that an airplane hired by the state had flown back and forth over her ...