Previous Rachel Carson News

From the Archives: Rachel Carson Answers Her Critics 07-19-24

After the publication of “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson faced fierce blowback from the pesticide industry. This was her response.


The Role for a Lifetime 05-12-24

For the last 25 years, actress and playwright Kaiulani Lee has traveled the world performing her play “A Sense of Wonder,” which tells the story of science writer Rachel Carson.


Silence And Wonder: Rachel Carson And The Power Of Words 04-16-24

“Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated.” – Anne Roe, 1952


A Long-Forgotten TV Script by Rachel Carson Is Now a Picture Book 02-09-24

In “Something About the Sky,” the National Book Award-winning marine biologist brings her signature sense of wonder to the science of clouds.


Seven Women Who Made the World Better for Birds and People 03-09-23

We’re giving a major hat tip to these die-hard conservationists, because every month should be Women’s History Month. Read more


Douglas Brinkley: Our planet needs another “Rachel Carson moment” 11-13-22

While writing a history of Rachel Carson and the environmental movement of the 1960s and ’70s, I was bombarded daily with contemporary news flashes about human-caused climate change disasters. Read more


What the world can learn from Rachel Carson as we fight for our planet 10-27-21

With her brave book Silent Spring, Carson changed the course of US environmental history. We would do well to study her example. Read more


Rachel Carson’s Maine: Wonders at the edge of the sea never grow old 09-08-21

The author, marine biologist, and conservationist was one of the state’s most perceptive ‘summer people.’ Read more


For Rachel Carson, wonder was a radical state of mind 10-02-19

Misplaced wonder at our own scientific and technological prowess, she worried, would isolate humanity from the realities of the world we share, not just with one another, but with all living creatures. Read more at Aeon


Will Rachel Carson Be the First Woman on the $20 Bill?

There’s a movement afoot to put a woman on the $20 bill and retire the slavery-supporting, Trail-of-Tears-Blazing President Andrew Jackson from his long-held post.

Among the top 15 nominees is marine biologist and author Rachel Carson whos groundbreaking book Silent Spring warned of the degredatio of natural systems if pesticide use continued unchecked. Carson didn’t live to see the formation of the U.S. EPA or the 1972 ban on the sale of DDT in the U.S. …Full article


Rachel Carson Discovered in West Virginia?

Where would you look for Rachel Carson’s typewriter, the oversized magnifying glass with which she poured over the tiny print of Federal publications to be edited, or her earliest memos warning about DDT in 1945? …more