In “Something About the Sky,” the National Book Award-winning marine biologist brings her signature sense of wonder to the science of clouds. By Maria Popova Maria Popova, the creator of ...

Cut-paper artist Nikki McClure emphasizes the natural world in her picture books, including Old Wood Boat and You Are Not Too Late, which she often stages near her Puget Sound home of Olympia, Wash.

Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, at her summer home in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) “Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated.” – Anne ...

Boston University professor Lida Maxwell’s latest book, Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love, is many fascinating things all at once. On one level, it is a slender biography of the great Rachel ...

In one of my all-time favorite Parks and Recreation episodes, Leslie Knope excitedly tells the camera that the city of Pawnee will finally get fluoride in their water thanks to a merger with ...

Environmentalists and Maryland legislators began a two-month-long celebration yesterday of the life of Rachel Carson, the Silver Spring-based activist whose book "Silent Spring" helped make ...

Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which captured the public’s imagination and led to a shift in the ...

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Carson’s scientific perspective and rigor created a work of substantial depth ...

When Kaiulani Lee talks to college students about her one-woman play about the writer, biologist and environmental activist Rachel Carson, they often ask her why she is spending all her time touring ...