Rachel Carson was a marine biologist who wrote three books about life in the ocean, before a letter, published in The Boston Herald, prompted a change of focus. The ...

In 1962, a former marine biologist published a book that would alter the way millions of Americans, and eventually people around the world, understood humanity’s relationship with nature. The book ...

Read with us! KQED's Climate Book Club is taking up "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson. We will gather to discuss during the Night of Ideas at the San Francisco Public Library on April 11. Our guest ...

—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 ...

Spring -- Sense of wonder: Under the Sea-Wind -- Summer -- Florescence: The Sea Around Us -- Fall - The fullness of life: From The Edge of the Sea to DDT -- Winter -- The poison book and the dark ...

Rachel Louise Carson was born on Monday, May 27, 1907, in Springdale. She was one of three children born to Maria and Robert Carson. The Carsons lived on a small farm, where Rachel’s mother encouraged ...

It's tough to pinpoint when the modern environmentalist movement started. Does one go back to Thoreau, John Muir or even as far back as Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole, whose "The Course of ...

It’s been more than half a century since the publication of Silent Spring by the scientist and creative writer Rachel Carson. The seminal volume caught the attention of U.S. presidents, artists and ...