the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring — which some called the most controversial book of the year — put the nation and world on alert to the dangers of overuse and misuse of ...

Before the publication of “Silent Spring” in 1962, environmental awareness was not a mainstream concern in the United States ...

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Her scientific perspective about the effect of pesticides on the natural world sparked ...

All Mankind is in her debt', said one Senator on Rachel Carson's death ... Al Gore described Silent Spring as the most influential book of the last fifty years, which brought us back to a ...

Rachel Carson grew up on a small Pennsylvania ... the Pacific islands where they were found." Carson died two years after Silent Spring was published, at age 56.

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 ...

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The country has learned a lot since Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring alerted us to the hazards of poisonous ... These iconic beauties have plummeted by 90 percent in the past 20 years. We ...

The Monterey Bay sparkles in morning sunlight as a person makes their way from Family Housing at UC Santa Cruz towards Rachel Carson College ... Her 1962 book, “Silent Spring,” chronicled ...

Rachel Carson is the author of the best-seller “Silent Spring” and “The Sea Around Us,” which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential ...