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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 catalyst for ...

It’s understandable that a movement to preserve air, water and wildlife would spring from Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is known for its parks, trails and forests and has more miles of streams than any ...

In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring,” a bestselling book that asserted that overuse of pesticides was harming the environment and threatening human health. Carson ...

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 ...

Rachel Carson, a scientist and writer from rural Pennsylvania, published Silent Spring 60 years ago. Many credit this book, which meticulously documented the damage that DDT pesticides were inflicting ...

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 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 following ...

In the 1960s and early 70s, an inordinate amount of our nation's environmental laws, programs, and agencies were created. There was the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, the creation of the ...

CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley joins Walter Isaacson to discuss the environmental awakening of the mid-20th century, which is the subject of his new book “Silent Spring Revolution.” > ...

Introduction : "The fight for a balanced environment and the fight for social justice and dignity are not unrelated struggles" -- "I think less of the factory than of my native dell" -- "Why don't ...