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. Her book ...

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 ...

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. More than 40 years before former vice ...

A scientist, farmer, journalist, biologist, and community organizer reflect on the power and ongoing impact of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking book, and the work that remains to be done.

Thus the first environmentalist or ecologists movements were born, particularly inspired by a book published in 1962, Silent Spring , by the American biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964), a volume ...

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 ...

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 ...