Half a million barrels of toxic waste lurking beneath the waves just miles from California’s coastline sounds like the plot ...

“Sixty-plus years ago, when Rachel Carson warned the world that DDT was likely to result in a “Silent Spring,” beautiful birds such as the bald eagle, osprey and peregrine falcon were almost ...

There’s no sugar coating to the film, nor a succinct lesson at the end. But it’s important medicine at a time when public ...

At the time, the chemical was being targeted by environmentalists like Silent Spring author Rachel Carson, who claimed DDT caused cancer and killed wildlife. Activists sued the EPA to stop the use ...

Ultimately, this led to a ban of DDT in the United States; many other countries followed suit. Decades later, with malaria on the rise, critics of Rachel Carson charge that she is to blame for ...

“The nightmare legacy of DDT continues to rear its ugly head,” said attorney Charlie Tebbutt. “Since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the world has known of DDT’s destructive impacts. It is time for the ...

Rachel Carson’s landmark 1962 book “Silent Spring” had established the dangers of DDT, and Carol, quipped her husband, “demanded of me that if I ever wanted to eat dinner again ...

DDT came into common use around 1939 (though ... think about the environment in a way they never had before. . . . Rachel Carson introduced to the general imagination the idea of ecology." ...

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 ...

Rachel Carson had released her book Silent Spring, which highlighted the hazards of the pesticide DDT and questioned humanity's faith in technological progress. Carson's book influenced social change ...