A 1958 letter from a Massachusetts woman inspired Carson to launch her intensive research for “Silent Spring.” The woman described in vivid detail how a mosquito-control campaign in her town ...

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 ...

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Carson’s scientific perspective and rigor created a work of substantial depth ...

As it happens, the author of that last volume, the New Yorker essayist E. B. White, could have written Carson’s classic “ Silent Spring,” which exposed the dangers of DDT and other pesticides.

By binding product labelling to the specific interpretations of the EPA, the policy would largely eliminate the ability to ...

PHOTO: Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, published 1962 by Houghton Mifflin. Sign up here. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Carson went on to write The Sea Around Us and The Edge of the Sea, and finally Silent Spring in 1962. Her science and nature writing was serialized in magazines, and she had a devoted following.

No one could blame Rachel Carson for feeling beleaguered. In the fall of 1962 her book, “Silent Spring,” unleashed both widespread praise and bitter, sometimes savage criticism. Former ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago Rachel Carson single-handedly started the environmental movement with her book "Silent Spring". We speak William Souder, author of "On a Farther Shore: The Life And Legacy Of ...