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 ...

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.

In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which captured the public’s imagination and led to a shift in the understanding of our relationship with the natural world. Her book ...

Carson’s groundbreaking book, "Silent Spring," raised early awareness about environmental issues, and her National Wildlife Refuge begins here in York County.

Science Rachel Carson Didn’t Kill Millions of Africans How the 50-year-old campaign against Silent Spring still distorts environmental debates.

Before the publication of “Silent Spring” in 1962, environmental awareness was not a mainstream concern in the United States ...

One woman was Rachel Carson, who would become well known for her book Silent Spring and its galvanization of the modern environmental movement; the other, Dorothy Freeman, was Carson’s mar ...

Rachel Carson’s ability to combine scientific insight with moral urgency helped ignite a global movement that continues to evolve and respond to the environmental challenges of the modern era.

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.