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1958: Science writer Rachel Carson writes to The New Yorker editor E.B. White suggesting that he write an article about the danger of pesticides. White demurs, but suggests that Carson write the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Remembrance of Earth’s Past,” a sci-fi book series by Chinese author Liu Cixin, grapples with some of the most fundamental ...

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 ...

The modern environmentalist movement was launched at the beginning of June 1962, when excerpts from what would become Rachel Carson's anti-chemical landmark Silent Spring were published in The New ...

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 ...

Grass-roots activism led to the creation of the EPA Carson was sometimes called the "nun of nature" Experts: Few books had such an impact on public policy Rachel Carson wasn't someone you'd expect to ...

WHEN Rachel Carson attacked the wholesale use of insecticides and pesticides, particularly the chlorinated hydrocarbons, she took on some of the largest and certainly the most potent of our big ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. “Remembrance of Earth’s Past,” a sci-fi book series by Chinese ...