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 ...

KQED takes on the seminal work in the context of the MAHA movement, PFAS, climate change and more during a discussion at the ...

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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. Her book ...

What: “The Power of One Voice” film is part of the Sustainable Community Film Series When/Where: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Loaded Joe’s, Avon and again at 6:30 p.m. May 16th at Dusty Boot, Eagle Some know ...

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 ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in ...