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 ...

The modern environmentalist movement was launched at the beginning of June 1962, when excerpts from what would become Rachel Carson's anti-chemical landmark Silent Spring were published in The New ...

This essay argues for reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring as a work of love that calls for an environmental politics of desire rather than self-preservation narrowly construed. I make this argument ...

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Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, at her summer home in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) “Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated.” – Anne ...

Calum Marsh: Silent Spring is universally regarded as a classic of scientific literature and a foundational text of the modern environmentalism movement You can save this article by registering for ...

EXCLUSIVE: Fifty years after its publication, Rachel Carson’s environmental tome “Silent Spring” is getting the big-screen treatment. Robert Chartoff’s Chartoff Productions has acquired feature rights ...

Rachel Carson’s famous and brilliant book Silent Spring (1962), which single-handedly ignited the environmental movement, has never been more relevant than it is today. A mimeo of Silent Spring is ...

In her barnstorming environmental polemic Silent Spring, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, Rachel Carson fired a broadside against the unfettered use of chemicals by agricultural giants ...