At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in particular promised to combat insects that carried diseases or ...

Stay up-to-date with the politics team. 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 ...

Just over 60 years ago, scientist and conservationist Rachel Carson warned that modern societies were contaminating the ...

After following up a lead from a birdwatcher, Rachel Carson drew a web of connections that led to one of the most influential books of the 20th century. Silent Spring (1962) investigated the synthetic ...

No one could blame Rachel Carson for feeling beleaguered. In the fall of 1962 her book, "Silent Spring," unleashed both widespread praise and bitter, sometimes savage criticism. Former Secretary of ...

The reception of Silent Spring: an introduction / Craig Waddell -- Chemical fallout: Silent Spring, radioactive fallout, and the environmental movement / Ralph H. Lutts -- An inventional archaeology ...

Rachel Carson’s passionate book, Silent Spring, first published in 1962 is said to be the work which launched the environmental movement. But how does it speak to us now? For a recording of Free ...