Rachel Carson’s look at the dire effects of industrial and agricultural pollution birthed the modern environmental movement ...

Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27, 1907, in Springdale, Pennsylvania. She was one of three children born to Maria and ...

A recent book argues Carson’s relationship with Dorothy Freeman shaped both “Silent Spring” and modern environmentalism.

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 ...

Cut-paper artist Nikki McClure emphasizes the natural world in her picture books, including Old Wood Boat and You Are Not Too Late, which she often stages near her Puget Sound home of Olympia, Wash.

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 ...

Today host Lisa Dettmer spends the hour talking to Professor Lida Maxwell, the author of the new book out by Stanford press called “ Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer love.” Rachel Carson, for ...

Yale is using small black rodent bait boxes while hosting exhibit honoring life of famed conservationist Rachel Carson ...