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Who warned of the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment in the 1962 book Silent Spring?

environment

[en-vahy-ruhn-muhnt, -vahy-ern-] / ɛnˈvaɪ rən mənt, -ˈvaɪ ərn- /


NOUN
earth's system of natural resources
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Next, Sam Sankar of the environmental-law organization Earthjustice explains why SCOTUS’ longstanding skepticism towards the environment does not make him as pessimistic as one might expect.

From Slate Sep. 19, 2026

In July, Anthropic's Claude escaped its test environment to hack three organisations on its own just days after OpenAI said its models had carried out cyber-attacks against several "publicly available services".

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

The German automaker said Friday that the reasons behind the guidance cut are a challenging market environment, particularly in China, the impairment of the Porsche goodwill and additional restructuring expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Hill, played by Betty Gabriel, describes the threatening nature of the unwanted advances that created such a toxic work environment.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

When these resources form a critical bottleneck—during a famine, for instance—a variant better adapted for an environment is “naturally selected.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

This year Nvidia has started using AI agents to help build virtual environments to train robots and validate whether the solutions from training work or not.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

The imperative to close all or portions of campuses potentially competes with the concurrent high priority of providing students with safe, up-to-date, fully resourced and inviting education environments.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

The true value of formal education lies in the challenging interpersonal environments, new perspectives and opportunities for self-reflection it provides.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

They can also send energy and gas far into surrounding space, potentially helping shape the environments around galaxies and galaxy clusters.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

Arsenic-contaminated environments have also caused sickness and death among horses, cows, goats, pigs, deer, fishes, and bees; despite this record arsenical sprays and dusts are widely used.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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