"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 ...

Franny Armstrong, creator of The Age of Stupid, looks at the explosive impact of Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring and its role in the growth of the environmental movement. Franny Armstrong ...

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Her scientific perspective about the effect of pesticides on the natural world sparked ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/Rachel-carson-malaria-and-silent-spring/ In 1962, the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring — which ...