Hosted by Michael Bartley, this episode explores Rachel Carson’s life, legacy, and impact. Hosted by Michael Bartley, this episode features “Rachel Carson's Homestead,” produced and reported by Dave ...

Boston University professor Lida Maxwell’s latest book, Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love, is many fascinating things all at once. On one level, it is a slender biography of the great Rachel ...

It's tough to pinpoint when the modern environmentalist movement started. Does one go back to Thoreau, John Muir or even as far back as Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole, whose "The Course of ...

Have you seen the Robins? Rachel Carson's mother and the tradition of women naturalists -- Don't harm the people: Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, and their heirs take on polluting ...

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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 ...

New Takes on the classics. Throughout our centennial year, we’re revisiting notable works from the archive. Sign up to receive them directly in your inbox. Before Carson turned to writing books, she ...

"The 'control of Nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that Nature exists for the convenience of man. The concepts and ...

David A. Fahrenthold quoted me in his May 23 Metro article “Rachel Carson Bill From Cardin on Hold” but misunderstood my point. While one cannot blame Rachel Carson for things done in her name after ...