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At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in particular promised to combat insects that carried diseases or ...

Rachel Carson grew up on a small Pennsylvania farm, where she spent hours exploring the outdoors. She always loved books, and when she was young thought she would be a writer. Her first publication ...

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 ...

Mary Silver, professor of ocean sciences at UC Santa Cruz, has been chosen to give the Rachel Louise Carson Lecture at the Spring American Geophysical Union (AGU) Joint Assembly in May. The invitation ...

—Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (p. 297) The publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 is widely regarded as one of the major events that launched the modern environmental movement. Silent ...

Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love by Lida Maxwell. Stanford University Press, 2025 ($25) On a summer night in the mid-1950s, two women lay side by side on Dogfish Head, a spit of land on Maine ...