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Rachel Carson, Cancer, and the NIH

While writing Silent Spring, Rachel Carson was dying of metastasizing breast cancer. Often in agony before she died, Carson asked her friends and colleagues to form an organization, the Rachel Carson Council (RCC), to carry on her work.

Rachel Carson and Virginia?

Rachel Carson Council (RCC) President & CEO, Bob Musil, told his lecture audience during an Earth Week visit to the University of Virginia (UVA), Carson knew and loved Virginia, visited often, wrote about it in some depth, and would have admired the array of environmental programs, projects, institutes, and engaged students and faculty at today’s University of Virginia.

Harbor Seal Spotted in Beaufort: Anomaly or Harbinger?

Excitement rushes through the crowd — it’s definitely a seal!

Louisiana Already Has 4 LNG Terminals. It Just Added Another.

The Trump administration fast-tracked the project approval, reversing a Biden directive.