Sci-fi drama 3 Body Problem is the latest series to drop on Netflix and is sure to take up a lot of our attention as we binge watch it over the weekend. The show is based on a series of novels of the ...

Explore the profound impact of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring on environmental consciousness and the legacy of the environmental movement. Carson argued that public ...

This passionate rejection of pesticides was dismissed by many as the work of an hysterical woman when first published. Now it is seen as a pioneering text in the environmental conservation movement ...

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Nearly 40 years ago on the pages of The New Yorker, after being rejected by Reader's Digest, a biologist by the name of Rachel Carson, wrote these words: "For the first time in the history of the ...

How Silent Spring, a book about DDT use, changed the way we think about the environment. Show more Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring has probably done more than any other to raise concerns about ...

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Silent Spring looked at the effect that synthetic pesticides were having on the environment. Within years of its publication in 1962, the use of DDT had been banned in the USA. Show more Silent Spring ...