Most people care about the planet - they just haven't found the right entry point. It's easy to feel paralyzed by the scale ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published in 1962, the book became a phenomenon. A passionate and eloquent warning about the long-term dangers of pesticides, the book unleashed an extraordinary ...

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 ...

What: “The Power of One Voice” film is part of the Sustainable Community Film Series When/Where: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Loaded Joe’s, Avon and again at 6:30 p.m. May 16th at Dusty Boot, Eagle Some know ...

Rachel Carson has been called the patron saint of the modern environmental movement. A quiet biologist who shook the world with her revelations about America's use of pesticides in the years following ...