Environment & Nature audiobooks

A Contract with the Earth

By: Newt Gingrich & Terry L. Maple

Narrated by: Callista Gingrich

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Focusing the environmental debate on the principle of common commitment, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and eminent conservationist Terry L. Maple present A Contract with the Earth. They declare a need for bipartisan environmentalism—a new era of environmental stewardship with principles that they believe most Americans will... Read more

This Moment on Earth

By: John Kerry & Teresa Heinz Kerry

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under attack—concerted and purposeful. Yet the need for solutions to pressing environmental problems grows more urgent each day. Teresa Heinz Kerry and Senator John Kerry traveled across the country in a national campaign to see firsthand how these issues unite people across party... Read more

Hell or High Water

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tsangpo Gorge in southeastern Tibet has lured explorers and adventurers since its discovery. Sacred to the Buddhists, the inspiration for Shangri La, the Gorge is as steeped in legend and mystery as any spot on earth. As a river-running challenge, the remote Tsangpo is relentlessly unforgiving, more difficult than any stretch of river ever... Read more

The Songs of Trees

By: David George Haskell

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & David George Haskell

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees 

"At once lyrical and informative, filled with beauty." – Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

David Haskell’s award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world.... Read more

A Speck in the Sea

By: John Aldridge & Anthony Sosinski

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The harrowing adventure-at-sea memoir recounting the heroic search-and-rescue mission for lost Montauk fisherman John Aldridge, which Daniel James Brown calls "A terrific read."

I am floating in the middle of the night, and nobody in the world even knows I am missing. Nobody is looking for me. You can't get more alone than that. You can't be... Read more

Coyote America

By: Dan Flores

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

With its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But legends don’t come close to capturing the incredible survival story of the coyote. As soon as Americans—especially white Americans—began ranching and... Read more

Basin and Range

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world—a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the... Read more

Silent Spring

By: Rachel Carson

Narrated by: Kaiulani Lee

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1962, Silent Spring can singlehandedly be credited with sounding the alarm and raising awareness of humankind's collective impact on its own future through chemical pollution. No other book has so strongly influenced the environmental conscience of Americans and the world at large. "Silent Spring came as a cry in the... Read more

Venom

By: Marilyn Singer

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Beware! Poisonous things are all around you. In the spirt of What Stinks?, Marilyn Singer brings kids the coolest, newest info on creatures that can harm or even kill with a bite or sting. Read more

Upstream

By: Langdon Cook

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • From the award-winning author of The Mushroom Hunters comes the story of an iconic fish, perhaps the last great wild food: salmon.

For some, a salmon evokes the distant wild, thrashing in the jaws of a hungry grizzly bear on TV. For others, it’s the catch of the day on a restaurant menu, or a deep... Read more

Shark Drunk

By: Morten Stroksnes

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A salty story of friendship, adventure, and the explosive life that teems beneath the ocean
 
The Lofoten archipelago, just North of the Arctic Circle, is a place of unsurpassed beauty—the skyline spikes with dramatic peaks; the radiant greens and purples of the Northern Lights follow summers where the sun never sets. It’s a place of small... Read more

The Ends of the World

By: Peter Brannen

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future.Our world has... Read more

The Lion in the Living Room

By: Abigail Tucker

Narrated by: Arden Hammersmith

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller about how cats conquered the world and our hearts in this “deep and illuminating perspective on our favorite household companion” (Huffington Post).

House cats rule bedrooms and back alleys, deserted Antarctic islands, even cyberspace. And unlike dogs, cats offer humans no practical benefit. The truth is they are sadly... Read more

Blizzard!

By: Jim Murphy

Narrated by: Taylor Mali

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 12, 1888, hurricane-force winds and unrelenting snow began to bring the region of Virginia to Maine to its knees. During the next three days, the Great Blizzard raged out of control, devastating every community in its path. Through the eyes and words of survivors and victims alike, as well as the careful research for which Newbery Honor... Read more

The Pig Who Sang to the Moon

By: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Narrated by: Tim Jerome

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's groundbreaking When Elephants Weep explored emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he reveals startling evidence that barnyard creatures have complex feelings too … among them, love, loyalty, friendship, sadness, grief, and sorrow. Weaving history, literature, science, and his own... Read more

Quakeland

By: Kathryn Miles

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It’s a road trip full of surprises.
 
Earthquakes. You need to worry about them only if you’re in San... Read more

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

By: Dan Egan

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award

A landmark work of science, history and reporting on the past, present and imperiled future of the Great Lakes.
The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and... Read more

The Weather Makers

By: Tim Flannery

Narrated by: Drew De Carvalho

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From Dr. Tim Flannery, one of the world's foremost experts on conservation and ecology, comes a book of immeasurable importance. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as a "powerful and persuasive" work that is "sure to provoke strong reaction," The Weather Makers is among the finest examinations of climate change ever written. Originally skeptical of global... Read more

The Great Quake

By: Henry Fountain

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history—the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega—and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.

At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964,... Read more

Ruthless Tide

By: Al Roker

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Flood—the deadliest flood in US history—from New York Times bestselling author, NBC Host, and legendary weather authority Al Roker.May 1889: After a deluge of rainfall—nearly a foot in less than twenty-four hours—swelled the Little Conemaugh River, panicked engineers watched helplessly as... Read more

What Works

By: Cal Thomas

Narrated by: Cal Thomas

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

We didn’t just crawl out of a cave. We know what works based on experience. Why must we constantly re-fight the same battles over and over? Our politics and even our spiritual lives too often resemble the film “Groundhog Day” in which actor Bill Murray wakes up and repeats the same event again and again and nothing ever changes, as in... Read more

Serve God, Save the Planet

By: J. Matthew Sleeth, M.D.

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Not long ago, J. Matthew Sleeth had a fantastic life and a great job as chief of the medical staff at a large hospital. He was living the American dream—until he saw an increasing number of his patients suffering from cancer, asthma, and other chronic diseases. He began to suspect that the Earth and its inhabitants were in deep trouble. Turning... Read more

The Sacred Acre

By: Mark Tabb

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When tragedy devastated a small town, an unlikely source of inspiration pieced the community back together in this dramatic true story. On a Sunday in May 2008, an F5 tornado hit the town of Parkersburg, Iowa, killing eight people and destroying 250 homes and businesses within a span of 34 seconds. The next day, Parkersburg's beloved football... Read more

Green Mama

By: Tracey Bianchi

Narrated by: Tracey Bianchi & Rev. Tracey Bianchi

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Moms today are busier than ever. Taking care of the planet sounds like a great idea—but in the midst of taking care of your kids, it becomes just one more thing to feel guilty about not doing. Tracey Bianchi knows what it’s like to live in the middle of suburbia with a to-do list too long to write down. In this unabridged audio download of Green... Read more