Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Remembrance of Earth’s Past,” a sci-fi book series by Chinese author Liu Cixin, grapples with some of the most fundamental ...

In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring,” a bestselling book that asserted that overuse of pesticides was harming the environment and threatening human health. Carson ...

"Over increasingly large areas of the United States spring now comes unheralded by the return of birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird ...

Review of Silent Spring at 50: Reflections on an Environmental Classic, by Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss (PERC, 2012), 32 pages I have been writing about Rachel Carson’s infamous book Silent ...

Over fifty-four years since it was first published, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring remains a divisive book. The exposé led to the birth of the modern environmental movement and the banning of DDT for ...

The modern environmentalist movement was launched at the beginning of June 1962, when excerpts from what would become Rachel Carson's anti-chemical landmark Silent Spring were published in The New ...

In her barnstorming environmental polemic Silent Spring, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, Rachel Carson fired a broadside against the unfettered use of chemicals by agricultural giants ...

A masterpiece of science and wonder, Rachel Carson’s book is a moral call to action. Would it have had the same impact if it were published today? Before all that she gave us in “Silent Spring,” ...