"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...