Baby boomers will probably remember the sea change in the public’s perspective that occurred in the early 1960s with the publication of Rachel Carson’s powerful book, “Silent ...

Rachel Carson, a biologist by training, became a writer by writing. But it was her love of nature--and particularly the world between the tide lines near her summer cottage in Maine--that made her ...

Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take 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 ...

Earth Day, born from a growing environmental awareness sparked by Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring,' unites over a billion people annually to address cr ...

Rachel Carson grew up on a small Pennsylvania farm, where she spent hours exploring the outdoors. She always loved books, and when she was young thought she would be a writer. Her first ...