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Silent Spring
Silent Spring describes the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, and is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.
Silent Spring describes the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, and is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.
Aquatic dead zones result from pollution caused by excessive fertilizer runoff and wastewater discharge. Their number and extent are increasing.
Effective strategies for rat control based on ecology were invented in Baltimore in the 1940s. The program, however, did not last.
This is Chapter 8 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.