In June of 1962, the first installation of Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring" erupted into print, exposing the deadly dangers of the pesticide DDT. “The term 'biocide' would be more appropriate than ...

In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring,” a bestselling book that asserted that overuse of pesticides was harming the environment and threatening human health. Carson ...

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This is the second part of a three-part series. Read the third part. As man proceeds toward his announced goal of the conquest of nature, he is writing a depressing record of destruction—destruction ...

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Carson’s scientific perspective and rigor created a work of substantial depth ...

This is the last part of a three-part series. Read the first part. The biologist George Wald once compared his work in an exceedingly specialized field, the visual pigments of the eye, to “a very ...

In the 1940s, Donald Pratt became known as the “Spray King of the West." Above, crop dusting planes in Pratt’s P-T Air Service fleet. Many farmers and experts were well aware of how little they really ...

It should come as no surprise by now that indigenous peoples thought immigrants were crazy when they shared their “good news” about taming nature, and turning its energy and power into forces for some ...