Ruthann Rudel is one of many here in southeastern Vermont to have recently moved here. While she continues to maintain her ...

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Following the buzzy Netflix debut of “3 Body Problem” this past weekend, the sci-fi book series on which the show is based, “Remembrance of Earth’s Past,” in addition to a title frequently mentioned ...

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 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 ...

Over fifty-four years since it was first published, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring remains a divisive book. The exposé led to the birth of the modern environmental movement and the banning of DDT for ...

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 ...

A masterpiece of science and wonder, Rachel Carson’s book is a moral call to action. Would it have had the same impact if it were published today? Before all that she gave us in “Silent Spring,” ...

Grass-roots activism led to the creation of the EPA Carson was sometimes called the "nun of nature" Experts: Few books had such an impact on public policy Rachel Carson wasn't someone you'd expect to ...