Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take 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 ...

when author Rachel Carson's 1962 book “Silent Spring,” about the pesticide DDT and its damaging effects on the food chain, hit bestseller lists and raised awareness about nature's delicate ...

Earth Day has its roots in growing concern over pollution in the 1960s, when author Rachel Carson's 1962 book “Silent Spring,” about the pesticide DDT and its damaging effects on the food ...