Silent Spring
In 1955 Rachel Carson was at the peak of her profession as a popular writer of science books about the sea. Under the Sea Wind (published in 1941), The Sea Around Us (1951), and The Edge...
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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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Teaching Silent Spring
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Silent Spring Lesson Plans contain 114 pages of teaching material, including:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A wood floor finish popular
in the 1950s and 1960s may be a significant source of the
banned, disease-causing pollutants known as PCBs, U.S.
researchers reported Wednesday. ...
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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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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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Meet George Jetson; Jane, his wife.
Their deluxe apartment in the sky, you must admit, boasts quite the view. Rockets whiz past condos the shape of flying saucers. Stars flutter and flicker, and b...
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Silent Spring
Rachel Louise Carson
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson
Banned toxin found in U.S. wood floor finishes
