The Springsong Museum, a Silver Spring-based nonprofit, is seeking to fund and build a museum honoring Silver Spring native ...

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.

March is Women’s History Month and it is an appropriate time to honor Rachel Carson, author and biologist, who spent her career doing research on toxic pesticides and educating the public in her ...

Sandra Steingraber is a biologist and author, who blends her gifts as a writer, storyteller, and scientist with advocacy. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. How did Silent ...

An author with personal ties to Rachel Carson and her seminal 1962 environmental activist book “Silent Spring,” said our current ecological state is worse than the one Carson fought against and ...

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.

A great naturalistic portrait signed by Rachel Carson, the mother of environmentalism ...

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.