Rachel Carson alerted the world to the dangers of environmental pollutants with works like the ground-breaking Silent Spring.
Carson, Rachel
Biologist and Author 1907-1964
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Rachel Louise Carson
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 thei...
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Carson, Rachel (1907-1964)
American marine biologist
Rachel Carson is best known for her 1962 book, Silent Spring, which is often credited with beginning the modern environmental movement in the Unite...
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Rachel Carson
Born May 27, 1907Springdale, Pennsylvania
Died April 14, 1964Silver Spring, Maryland
Naturalist, marine biologist, writer,environmental activist
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Rachel Louise Carson (1907 – 1964) American Ecologist, Marine Biologist, and Writer
Rachel Louise Carson was a university-trained biologist, a longtime United States government employee, and a ...
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Rachel Carson Council
The Rachel Carson Council focuses on the dangers of pesticides and other toxic chemicals and their impact on human health, wildlife, and the environment. After the 1962 publica...
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Carson, Rachel
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...
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Carson, Rachel (1907–1964)
Nature writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson set off a storm of controversy in 1962 with the publ...
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Carson, Rachel Scientist, Ecologist, Writer of Silent Spring (1907–1964)
In 1963 an important national symbol almost became extinct. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, only 417 pa...
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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...
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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 (dich...
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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 win...
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Rachel Carson is best remembered for her groundbreaking book Silent Spring, which first brought to public attention the environmental damage caused by chemical fertilizers and such pesticides as DDT a...
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Rachel Carson is known primarily as the author of Silent Spring, a 1962 book that introduced readers to the hazards of pesticide abuse, shifting the focus of environmental writing by addressing dange...
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Standards-based science content presented via engaging text and photos in colorful 32-page books.This enhanced eBook gives you the freedom to copy and paste the content of each page into the format...
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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, C...
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Oslo (dpa) - Former Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson on
Tuesday became the 10th winner of the annual Sophie Prize for his
"political leadership in the field of climate p...
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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 ...
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There's no golf course or hotel coming to the quiet marshes around this refuge, a spot prized by birdwatchers for its bustling waterfowl and bald eagle populations. But that doesn't mean there are ...
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Ecological consciousness has become so big, so fast in the past two years. We got a little sleepy after the 1960’s, 1970’s, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and the crying Indian and...
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