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9 Apr 2014

Another Silent Spring, a Spring Without Bees?

by Margot Fortunato Galt | posted in: Nature & Wildlife, Environment, Food | 0

When Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, she imagined a neighborhood so quiet as to be dead. All the birds gone due to DDT’s effect on thinning their shells and killing the worms and insects they ate. Today we … Continued

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