The author looks at what we’ve learned about pesticides and the environment in the six decades since publication of the book that changed how the world sees nature.

Opinion: Hearing the Silent Spring 60 years on

A reflection on what we’ve learned about pesticides since publication of the bestseller

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 did not call […] Read more