Frontline: Silent Spring Revisited
- Discusses how supporters and critics assess Carson's influential book. From the Web site of the PBS TV series Frontline.
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nature/disrupt/sspring.html

Smithsonian Magazine: Sounding the Alarm
- Assesses the influence of "Silent Spring" forty years later: "It forever changed our view of the environment."
- http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2002/september/presence.php

Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring" and the Environmental Movement
- Discusses the controversy spawned by the publication of "Silent Spring."
- http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/history/lecture31/r_31-3.html

Reason Online: "Silent Spring" at 40
- Finds the legacy of the book "troubling," particularly in regard to carcinogenic effects of pesticides.
- http://reason.com/rb/rb061202.shtml

Rachel Carson
- Al Gore's introduction to the 1994 edition of "Silent Spring."
- http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/24hours/carson.html

New York Times: There's Poison All Around Us Now
- Review of "Silent Spring."
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/05/reviews/carson-spring.html

National Wildlife: How Rachel Carson Helped Save the Brown Pelican
- Tells how the coastal brown pelican survived as a result of Carson's success in warning of pesticides' danger to wildlife. From National Wildlife magazine.
- http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?articleId=689&issueId=61

National Resources Defense Council: The Story of "Silent Spring"
- The positive influence of "Silent Spring."
- http://www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/hcarson.asp

FrontPage Magazine: Rachel Carson's Ecological Genocide
- Argues that "Silent Spring" resulted in countless deaths from malaria and other diseases by causing reduced use of DDT.
- http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9169

Competitive Enterprise Institute: Rachel Was Wrong
- Brief article on "Silent Spring" argues that "many of the concerns Carson raised were unfounded."
- http://www.cei.org/gencon/005,01338.cfm

Center for Global Food Issues: The Cancerous Legacy of Rachel Carson
- Article contends that Carson's warnings about the risks of pesticides were wrong.
- http://www.cgfi.org/materials/articles/2002/jun_6_02.htm

Capitalism Magazine: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Environmentalist Mythology Killing Us Softly
- Article blames Carson's "mythology" about DDT for unnecessary deaths from diseases that DDT was once used to fight.
- http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1796