Rachel Carson was a university-trained biologist, a longtime United States government employee, and a best-selling author of such books as Edge of the Sea, The Sea Around Us (a National Book Award winner), and Silent Spring. Her book on the dangers of...

Published in 1962, Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, sent shock waves through communities because it exposed the dangers of unregulated pesticide use. After the insecticidal properties of DDT (dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane) were discovered in...

Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) was an American biologist and writer whose book Silent Spring aroused an apathetic public to the dangers of chemical pesticides. Rachel Carson was born May 27, 1907, in Springdale, Pa. A solitary child, she spent long...

Rachel Louise Carson was a university-trained biologist, a longtime United States government employee, and a bestselling author of such books as Edge of the Sea, The Sea Around Us (a National Book Award winner), and Silent Spring. Her book on the...

For post-World War II America, scientist and writer Rachel Louise Carson (1907–1964), born in Springdale, Pennsylvania on May 27, popularized the idea that ethical discussions of science and technology should consider environmental concerns....

1907-1964 American Biologist and Writer Rachel Carson was a scientist and writer who first revealed the residual hazards of indiscriminate pesticide use, drawing attention to their serious ill effects on animals and humans. Carson also won recognition...

In 1963 an important national symbol almost became extinct. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, only 417 pairs of bald eagles nested in the continental United States that year. Eagle eggs cracked open easily because the parents ate prey...

Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings are often credited with launching the global environmental movement. Carson started her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau...

Standing in the middle of a neighbor's parlor, four-year-old Rachel Carson lifted the conch shell to her ear and listened. Was that really the ocean that she heard? The soft whisper grew fainter then louder again. It was not the sound of...

I remember, as a child, learning from my mother how to discern the crest of the tufted titmouse, the rasping chatter of a house wren and the pendent nest of an oriole. Nature, to my mother, unfolded not as an undifferentiated blur of trees,...

Today is Sunday, May 27, the 147th day of 2007. There are 218 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., opened to pedestrian traffic (vehicular traffic began crossing the bridge...

Marian McPartland isn't ready to slow down."Retire? Why retire? I've got a job, I'm making money, and I like what I do," says McPartland, host of National Public Radio's "Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz" for nearly 30 years."I can't walk. I'm in miserable pain. But at...