In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which captured the public’s imagination and led to a shift in the understanding of our relationship with the natural world.

More by Brooke Borel This article was originally published with the title “Rachel Carson and Queer Nature” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 332 No. 1 (January 2025), p. 84 ...

Rachel Carson has been called the patron saint of the modern environmental movement. A quiet biologist who shook the world with her revelations about America's use of pesticides in the years ...

Rachel Carson was born in 1907 in the landlocked town of Springdale, Pa., but her life flowed inexorably toward the sea.

Author Rachel Carson’s book about the threat posed by the pesticide DDT ultimately led to the creation of the EPA and other environmental milestones. By Ben Jealous May 13, 2024, 3:24pm PDT ...

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.

Spotify RSS All episodes Details Transcript March 12, 2020 In 1958, writer Rachel Carson began her exhaustive research on the effects of widespread pesticide use for her next book, Silent Spring.

Shaughnessea Richardson, Conquering the Barriers Between Nature and Man, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Vol. 88, No. 1 (Winter 2021), pp. 114-130 ...

Today host Lisa Dettmer spends the hour talking to Professor Lida Maxwell, the author of the new book out by Stanford press called “ Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer love.” Rachel Carson, for ...

Rachel Carson was a passionate and poetic writer, but she was not a particularly subtle one. When she set out to write a book, it did not end until the mountains had crumpled into the sea, all ...