Books
Rachel Louise Carson was born 107 years ago today in Springdale, Pa.
May 27, 2014
Rachel Carson was already an icon before she died in April 1964 at age 56.
April 16, 1995
Opinion
Monarchs, milkweed and the spirit of Rachel Carson
Feb. 23, 2014
Business
Rachel Carson has been both a hero to environmentalists and the bane of the chemical and pesticide industries — and their political mouthpieces — ever since the 1962 publication of her seminal book “Silent Spring.”
Feb. 6, 2017
Television
If Rachel Carson’s story were fiction, no one would buy it--too many cliches.
Feb. 8, 1993
Since her death in 1964, Rachel Carson has become environmentalism’s patron saint.
Sept. 21, 1997
World & Nation
Thirty years after its publication, Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” is summarily regarded as the cornerstone of the modern environmental movement.
Sept. 10, 1992
To save the monarch butterfly, we have to be as strategic and courageous as the author of ‘The Silent Spring.’
The Gentle Subversive Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement Mark Hamilton Lytle Oxford University Press: 278 pp., $23 : The End of the Wild Stephen M. Meyer Boston Review/The MIT Press: 100 pp., $14.95 : Hardy Californians A Woman’s Life With Native Plants Lester Rowntree University of California Press: 310 pp., $19.95 paper
Feb. 25, 2007
California
Irvine resident Suzanne Baker, a junior at Cal State Fullerton, was named the first recipient of the Rachel Carson Scholarship Award in Conservation Biology.
Sept. 1, 1990