Today's the last day of April. So, to continue the commemoration of Earth Month, we asked our friends at Rachel’s Network to share some of their favorite quotes from women environmentalists who ...

Rachel Carson, whose book Silent Spring helped spark ... which dismissed her as a, quote, "hysterical woman who is unqualified as a scientist." And 45 years later, Carson can still spark controversy.

Science, Standard 13: Understands the scientific enterprise. Rachel Carson's book, SILENT SPRING, touched off a major controversy in 1962 when it alleged that man's frequent and indiscriminate use ...

Today host Lisa Dettmer spends the hour talking to Professor Lida Maxwell, the author of the new book out by Stanford press called “ Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer love.” Rachel Carson, for ...

Before Rachel Carson became the mother of the modern environmental movement, she was stuck in a job that paid the bills but left her restless. A new documentary revisits Carson's days as an ...

When it first came out, many conservative readers interpreted Rachel Carson’s book as a threat rather than a warning. Like current controversies surrounding climate change, Carson’s pet subjec ...