On Sept. 27, 1962, Rachel Carson changed her tone. Her next book, Silent Spring, which she called her “poison book,” was an angry, no-holds-barred polemic against pesticides: especially DDT ...

In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, ... However, Carson showed that DDT wasn’t even helping humans as intended. She claimed that due to the overuse of pesticides, ...

Then in 1962, the book “Silent Spring,” by author and marine biologist Rachel Carson, used science to expose the “shadow of death” cast by DDT.

Rachel Carson’s seminal 1962 book, ... Carson reported that birds ingesting DDT tended to lay thin-shelled eggs which would in turn break prematurely in the nest, ...

If Rachel Carson hoped to end the use of DDT and our exposure to it, she did a lousy job. In 2006, the World Health Organization announced a renewed commitment to fighting malaria with DDT, ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. The myth that Rachel Carson, author of “Silent Spring,” was responsible for the deaths of millions of people in Africa because her denunciations of DDT led to a ...

When Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” first sounded the alarm on DDT and its devastating effects on birds and fish, our understanding of how this pesticide affected humans was just beginning ...

Rachel Carson, the naturalist whose landmark book, “Silent Spring,” is credited with launching the global environmental movement, halting the indiscriminate use of pesticides in the United ...

Rachel Carson has been both a hero to environmentalists and the bane of the chemical and pesticide industries — and their political ... Carson’s brief against DDT was far more nuanced than her ...