The homesteaders at Gold Shaw Farm experience a silent spring where no new bird life emerges on the farm as expected.

Rachel Carson’s look at the dire effects of industrial and agricultural pollution birthed the modern environmental movement ...

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 “Silent Spring” is the book that gave birth to American environmentalism 50 years ago. It’s the book that raised the first red flag over the unregulated use of chemical pesticides that ...

"Over increasingly large areas of the United States spring now comes unheralded by the return of birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. First in an occasional series on Rachel Carson a half-century after the ...

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 ...