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Designated October 26, 2012, at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In Spanish: El legado de Primavera silenciosa de Rachel Carson Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, was a ...

Unlike her earlier trilogy of sea books, Silent Spring is dark and unsettling. Halfway through its writing, in 1960, she found out her breast cancer had metastasized. "Then everything changed in ...

Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring” in 1962. In honor of Women’s History Month and the 60th anniversary of Carson’s seminal work, I wanted to look back at this remarkable woman and her life’s work ...

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.

Rachel Carson has been both a hero to environmentalists and the bane of the chemical ... Attacks on Rachel Carson and her seminal 1962 environmental treatise "Silent Spring" are rising again. Don ...

Rachel Carson, whose book Silent Spring helped spark the modern environmental movement, would have been 100 years old Sunday. Her work continues to stir up controversy on Capitol Hill.

Over fifty-four years since it was first published, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring remains a divisive book. The exposé led to the birth of the modern environmental movement and the banning of DDT for ...

In the wake of the recent United Nations Climate Summit in Dubai at which nearly 200 nations agreed to work toward weaning the world off fossil fuels, it is worth looking back 61 years to another e… ...

Carson passed away from complications following breast cancer treatment in 1964, before she could witness the changes in U.S. environmental policy that Silent Spring helped to bring about.

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 ...