Spraying from either a ground-based vehicle or an airplane is a common method for applying pesticides. Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published ...

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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Carson’s scientific perspective and rigor created a work of substantial depth ...

Rachel Carson’s sea trilogy well deserves a Library of America edition; Danny Heitman is right to praise the eloquence of her nature writing (Books, March 4). He is also right to say she was a “keen ...

It should come as no surprise by now that indigenous peoples thought immigrants were crazy when they shared their “good news” about taming nature, and turning its energy and power into forces for some ...

Spraying from either a ground-based vehicle or an airplane is a common method for applying pesticides. Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published ...

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 ...