Earth Day, born from a growing environmental awareness sparked by Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring,' unites over a billion people annually to address critical issues like climate change and pollution.

In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent ... especially one known as ‘DDT.’ Notably, Carson’s work also helped launch the modern environmental movement and highlighted the ...

As Esquire magazine wrote, Silent Spring "made people think about the environment in a way they never had before. . . . Rachel Carson introduced to the general imagination the idea of ecology." ...

Franny Armstrong, creator of The Age of Stupid, looks at the explosive impact of Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring and its role in the growth of the environmental movement. Franny Armstrong ...