Topic: Rachel Carson

Companies move faster when more people are in charge?

Society plays an increasingly large role in shaping business trends. By embracing social stakeholders, like the Occupy movement, companies can learn what lies ahead before their competitors.

Celebrate Earth Day with natural Easter egg dyes

Hard boiled eggs can be made beautiful for Easter with natural dyes from your cupboard.

Moby-Duck

When 28,800 plastic bath toys are lost at sea, a journalist becomes obsessed with their whereabouts.

The slap heard round the world

The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960

Development or conservation? Douglas Brinkley traces the debate over Alaska's riches.

Top picks: Guitar festival redux, 'A Town Called Panic,' 'Rubicon,' and more recommendations

Highlights of Crossroads Guitar Festival in local movie theaters, a marvelously inventive Belgian animated film on DVD, AMC's new espionage series, and more top picks.

Happy Earth Day: Apologies for the late thank-you card

We're marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. That's a little embarrassing considering our 4.5 billion-year-old planet has been so hospitable.

'Great Old Broads' keep vigil over endangered wild lands

The conservation group, made up mostly of older women, helps the US government track illegal use of public lands in the US West.

How Lincoln Learned to Read

Daniel Wolff examines the lives of 12 Americans and the educations that made them.

One third of US bird species are in peril

Climate change, oil spills imperil birds, according to landmark report.

Reviews of "I See You Everywhere" and "The Flying Troutmans"

Two new novels center on the complex, competitive love between sisters.

The greenest generation?

Are kids today more eco-friendly than their parents? Will they stay that way?

Garden 'siteseeing' in New England

Solzhenitsyn and piercing pens

The literary dissident rightly observed the power of the pen to 'defeat lies.'

Beijing lawyer fights for pollution victims

Xu Kezhu took pollution for granted – until she saw the clean skies of Europe.

Smearing Rachel Carson

DDT showing up in Antarctic penguins