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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in ...

In one of President John F. Kennedy‘s famous interactive press conferences, on Aug. 29, 1962, a reporter asked if he planned to respond to the warnings in Rachel Carson’s seminal book, “A Silent ...

Within Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” are haunting words about a place where birds cease to sing. The cause behind the lack of singing birds was DDT, a chemical banned for agricultural use ...

Rachel Carson brought awareness to the harmful effects of pesticides including DDT when she published her book “Silent Spring ...

No one could blame Rachel Carson for feeling beleaguered. In the fall of 1962 her book, "Silent Spring," unleashed both widespread praise and bitter, sometimes savage criticism. Former Secretary of ...

Dear EarthTalk: I understand there is good news about the recovery of bird species like the Peregrine Falcon, Bald Eagle and others owed to the 1972 ban on DDT. Can you explain? — Mildred Eastover, ...

Spring -- Sense of wonder: Under the Sea-Wind -- Summer -- Florescence: The Sea Around Us -- Fall - The fullness of life: From The Edge of the Sea to DDT -- Winter -- The poison book and the dark ...

In one of my all-time favorite Parks and Recreation episodes, Leslie Knope excitedly tells the camera that the city of Pawnee will finally get fluoride in their water thanks to a merger with ...

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 ...