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 ...

Marcia Ishii: I started this work many years ago, working in Thailand with farmers who were being directly exposed to chemical pesticides and witnessing the extremely aggressive marketing of ...

Moreover, the influence of Silent Spring extended to the enactment of some of the most important environmental legislation in U.S. history. The National Environmental Policy Act ...

The influence of this style on writers today is plain to see: echoes of Silent Spring can be heard in many other scientific polemics charged by personal passion, from David Wallace-Wells’ The ...

“Silent Spring” remains a rousing call to action Rachel Carson’s book of 1962 helped kickstart the environmental movement in America. Share. Sep 27th 2022 | 4 min read. Listen to this story.

Well before "Silent Spring" was published, a crop-dusting industry developed on the Great Plains in the years after World War II to apply newly commercialized pesticides.

'Silent Spring' sparked a movement that saved some of our most iconic wildlife species from extinction Author Rachel Carson’s book about the threat posed by the pesticide DDT ultimately led to ...

Film Description. Ver la película con subtítulos en español When Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published in 1962, the book became a phenomenon.A passionate and eloquent warning about the ...