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 ...

Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore, by J.M.W. Turner. (Heritage Art / Heritage Images via Getty Images) Rachel Carson was a passionate and poetic writer, but she was not a particularly subtle one. When ...

Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love by Lida Maxwell. Stanford University Press, 2025 ($25) On a summer night in the mid-1950s, two women lay side by side on Dogfish Head, a spit of land on Maine ...

Rachel Carson: The Sea Trilogy Sandra Steingraber Library of America, 2021 ($40) Before Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in 1962—a literary masterpiece and foundation of the modern environmental ...

This week, temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius (about 104 degrees Fahrenheit) were recorded in the United Kingdom for the first time in history. Across the ocean, more than 100 million Americans were ...

The 2024 record price for Rachel Carson was for 10 Books, Harper Lee, William Barrett, Rachel Carson, Henry Miller, Dee Brown, Cecil Roth The 2023 record price for Rachel Carson was for 10 Books, ...

Rachel Carson grew up on a small Pennsylvania farm, where she spent hours exploring the outdoors. She always loved books, and when she was young thought she would be a writer. Her first publication ...