Rachel Carson, who was a quick learner, would be ahead of us in understanding the devastating effects everywhere of still-rocketing population growth combined with consumption of national ...

Rachel Carson has been called the patron saint of the modern environmental movement. A quiet biologist who shook the world with her revelations about America's use of pesticides in the years ...

SCARBOROUGH – On Saturday, Sept. 24, 2021, in celebration of National Public Lands Day, the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge will be hosting a volunteer workday to help restore native ...

The Rachel Carson Homestead is a modest two-story house that I initially drove by without noticing, amid ordinary homes since built upon property once owned by her family.

It is the story of the extremely private Rachel Carson thrust into the role of controversial public figure. ACT I takes place in Miss Carson's summer home as she is preparing to leave.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Rachel Carson's book, "Silent Spring" was first published on September 27, 1962, and its impact caused a wave of change that is still felt 60 years later. Her voice was a ...

In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which captured the public’s imagination and led to a shift in the understanding of our relationship with the natural world.

Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love by Lida Maxwell. Stanford University Press, 2025 ($25) On a summer night in the mid-1950s, two women lay side by side on Dogfish Head, a spit of land on ...