In June of 1962, the first installation of Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring" erupted into print, exposing the deadly dangers of the pesticide DDT. “The term 'biocide' would be more appropriate than ...

Spraying from either a ground-based vehicle or an airplane is a common method for applying pesticides. Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published ...

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 ...

Rachel Carson’s famous and brilliant book Silent Spring (1962), which single-handedly ignited the environmental movement, has never been more relevant than it is today. A mimeo of Silent Spring is ...

This is the second part of a three-part series. Read the third part. As man proceeds toward his announced goal of the conquest of nature, he is writing a depressing record of destruction—destruction ...

This is the last part of a three-part series. Read the first part. The biologist George Wald once compared his work in an exceedingly specialized field, the visual pigments of the eye, to “a very ...

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. Carson ...