Sixty years later, the message of “Silent Spring” is falling on deaf ears. Global bird populations have plummeted 30% and pesticides are one of the culprits.

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"Silent Spring" is published 1962 "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 ...

Then in 1962, the book “Silent Spring,” by author and marine biologist Rachel Carson, used science to expose the “shadow of death” cast by DDT.

Falconry is an ancient sport going back thousands of years. In Shakespeare’s time, it was a way of putting food on the dinner ...

Birds that consume it in quantities too small to kill them lay few eggs, and the chicks that hatch soon die. ... Silent Spring—III. By Rachel Carson. Annals of Medicine.

In "Silent Spring," Carson described in detail how chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides persisted in the environment long after they ... birds and other wildlife," writes Penn State entomologist ...

Within Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” are haunting words about a place where birds cease to sing. The cause behind the lack of singing birds was DDT, a chemical banned for agricultural ...

Silent Spring—II. By Rachel Carson. June 16, 1962. Illustration by Emiliano Ponzi. Save this story Save ... once filled with the beauty of bird song, are strangely silent.