"Over increasingly large areas of the United States spring now comes unheralded by the return of birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of ...

And this study provides some evidence that both wildlife and human benefitted from the "silent spring". "It improves your state of being and mental health to be able to hear more birds and I think ...

Carson presented evidence from state after state of entire bird populations being wiped ... about the impact Silent Spring had when it was first published, the challenges she faced, and how ...

The bird was subject to widespread extermination efforts by settlers, and even fed to hogs in Maine. When the story of its poisoning by DDT was popularized in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, a nascent ...

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring was a landmark in the development of the modern ... of DDT contributed to the near extinction of bald eagles and other birds. The birds absorbed DDT by eating ...