Rachel Carson

Her first three books were odes to the world’s bodies of water and their creative power over all life forms.

Reading Silent Spring today, in the hazy reddish glow of climate catastrophe, is both an exhilarating and a melancholy pleasure.

When Silent Spring was published, the response was overtly gendered. Rachel Carson's critics depicted her as hysterical, mystical, and witchy.

She did not write her most famous work until late in life. Until then, she thought of herself as a poet of the sea.

On the early origins of a very American kind of writing.

The complicated, ever-changing, millennia-long relationship between insects and humans.

A new history of the environmental movement places too much emphasis on famous figures like Rachel Carson and shies away from confronting failures.

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s.

Instead of banning dangerous pesticides, the EPA is actually loosening the rules on who can use them.

The story of water in the West, climate change, and the birth of modern environmentalism lies at the bottom of Lake Powell.

In 1973, the Christmas Bird Count formed the basis for a press freedom case that centered on the impacts of DDT.

Scientists and lawmakers in the 70s knew more than we think they did about climate change and the impacts of fossil fuel regulations.

Our government institutions, and especially our scientific ones, have a duty to rebuild the public trust that has eroded over the last half century.

Scientists have found toxic levels of the chemical at large. And some groups are making the case to produce even more.

Three books offer views of the shift from public planning to neoliberal privatization, and emphasize the need to reclaim planning in the public interest.

Who did neoliberalism?

Traditional environmentalism has lacked a meaningful, practical democratic vision, rendering it largely marginal to the day-to-day lives of most Americans.

How public interest groups inadvertently aided the right’s ascendency.

Instead of yesteryear’s dry and dusty lectures, science communicators are creating new and exciting ways to engage with science.

The founding father of American birding soared on the wings of white privilege. How should the birding community grapple with this racist legacy?