Location Currently not on view Credit Line Gift of Joan E. The publication of Silent Spring led to an increased public awareness of humanity’s impact on nature and is credited as the beginning of the modern environmental movement, leading to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 and the banning of DDT in 1972. While noting the benefits of pesticides in fighting insect-borne disease and boosting crop yields, Carson warned about the invisible dangers of indiscriminate insecticide use and its unintended effect on nature. Carson's research on the effect of insecticides (specifically DDT) on bird populations coupled with her moving prose made Silent Spring a best-seller, though chemical companies attacked it as unscientific. Object Details author Carson, Rachel Description The book Silent Spring by biologist and nature writer Rachel Carson was published in 1962.

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.Book Award for The Sea Around Us, the George Westinghouse Science Writing Award 1950, the John Burroughs Medal of the John Burroughs Association and the title Woman of the Year in Literature.

Fish and Wildlife Service and her writing was recognised with various awards including The U.S. She found success in her ability to bring her vast knowledge of the sea and sea-life to the general public with her poetic and absorbing prose (feats which were criticised by journalists and peers who branded her a “hysterical woman” who used “emotion fanning words”). She graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) in 1929 and went on to study at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, receiving her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932. Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist. You can read more about the trade deal in George Monbiot’s article here and if this is an issue you feel strongly about, you can find out more and contact your MP here. Today, we face the frightening prospect of a US trade deal which would weaken UK pesticide standards, threatening significant risk to the health of UK citizens and the environment. At the time of its publication in 1962, Silent Spring was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies but brought about numerous changes to the United States’ national pesticide policy, famously leading to a nationwide ban on DDT for agricultural uses and inspiring an environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. In a case of saving it for a special occasion, we almost forgot to post Rachel Carson’s seminal Silent Spring at all.

Silent spring by rachel carson