Rachel Carson highlighted the environmental consequences of our actions in a way that had never been done before.

MILPITAS, CA, UNITED STATES, April 23, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The American education system has reached a tipping point. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced school closures, billions of ...

Earth Day has its roots in growing concern over pollution in the 1960s, when author Rachel Carson's 1962 book “Silent Spring, ...

Rutgers' research reveals the widespread presence of mercury pollution in Earth’s polar regions. In 1962, environmentalist ...

Earth Day, born from a growing environmental awareness sparked by Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring,' unites over a billion people annually to address critical issues like climate change and pollution.

WASHINGTON — Millions of people around the world on Tuesday are celebrating Earth Day, an annual event founded by people who ...

The promise that Earth Day held at its 1970 inception, when climate change was a nascent concept and environmentalism was a ...

Its roots stretch back to transformative moments: Rachel Carson’s 1962 groundbreaking book Silent Spring, and the growing realization that not all human progress benefits life on Earth.

In 1962, however, this all changed when Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” was published and sold over 500,000 copies across 24 countries. Her book helped raise public awareness about ...

especially from neo-environmentalist Rachel Carson in her 1962 groundbreaking book “Silent Spring.” Most people didn’t know how to mark the initial Earth Day in April 1970, with many turning ...

The first Earth Day happened shortly thereafter, on April 22, 1970. Of course, astronauts on their way to the Moon can ...

But lately, as I read news about deadly heat waves and disappearing glaciers, those titles are beginning to seem almost naive. They’re full of far-off warnings of what could come if we don’t curb ...