Sixty years after Silent Spring, it’s time to admit that all-or-nothing environmentalism isn’t working and to start working to forge a more sustainable future for our industry.

This is a new Silent Spring moment. Rachel Carson’s 1962 seminal book Silent Spring —about the harm that pesticides like DDT can cause to humans and the species we share the planet with—is often cited ...

2. Concerned cropdusters Well before “Silent Spring” was published, a crop-dusting industry developed on the Great Plains in the years after World War II to apply newly commercialized pesticides.

'Silent Spring' sparked a movement that saved some of our most iconic wildlife species from extinction Author Rachel Carson’s book about the threat posed by the pesticide DDT ultimately led to ...

The book “Silent Spring,” which plays an integral role in the show’s storyline, also rocketed to No. 1 on Amazon following the show’s release.

The Silent Spring Institute found that 27% of the 4,800 public water systems it analyzed had detectable levels of at least one of four “harmful” types of chemicals not regulated by the … ...

Rachel Carson and President Kennedy worked together after Silent Spring’s 1962 publication. (Illustration by Joe Ciardiello, National Audubon Magazine) ...

A Sense Of Wonder is a film airing on PBS that depicts pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson during the final year of her life, as she battles cancer and her critics in the wake of publishing ...

The book “Silent Spring,” which plays an integral role in the show’s storyline, also rocketed to No. 1 on Amazon following the show’s release.

Sir David Attenborough, a naturalist, describes “Silent Spring” as the book which has most profoundly shaped the scientific world other than “On The Origin of Species”.

Over the many years since Silent Spring, numerous contaminants have moved through the emerging contaminant life cycle, including asbestos, dioxins, PCBs, MTBE, BPA, 1,4-dioxane, and most recently ...

Published in 1962, ‘Silent Spring’ called attention to collateral damage from widespread use of synthetic pesticides. Many problems the book anticipated persist today in new forms.