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On Sept. 27, 1962, biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a book that would radically shift how the nation thought about the effect of pesticides on human health and the environment.

John Robbins, an heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire who rejected the family business to advocate plant-based ...

How to live through the climate and ecological crisis? The Australian researcher and artist offers some food for thought in a powerful essay. Jonathan Littell reviews it.

When insects are killed or die off, everything in the food web is affected, from the birds, bats and lizards that feed on insects to the snakes, coyotes and cougars that feed on birds and lizards, and ...

Ruxandra Guidi for High Country News, originally published July 1, 2025 This past April, I attended one of the nation’s 1,400 ...

As summer kicks into high gear on the Fourth of July, Netflix is releasing a new series highlighting the beauty, importance ...

Rachel Carson is credited with launching the modern environmental movement with her landmark book, "Silent Spring" (Carson, 1962). She documented and decried the widespread harm caused by pesticides ( ...

On June 16, 1962, The New Yorker began publishing a serialized version of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Spring would eventually turn silent, Carson warned, because widespread pesticide use was ...

The 2015-16 school year is almost here, and Rachel Carson Middle School has a big change for its students this year – a new principal.

The Rachel Carson Bridge in downtown Pittsburgh will close for inspection Monday.The bridge will be shut down from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Friday.