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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In 1962, biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, her seminal work on the effects pollution has on humans and the environment. Among its achievements, the book influenced a ban of the ...

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 ...

Following the buzzy Netflix debut of “3 Body Problem” this past weekend, the sci-fi book series on which the show is based, “Remembrance of Earth’s Past,” in addition to a title frequently mentioned ...