Environment & Nature audiobooks

A World of Three Zeros

By: Muhammad Yunus

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet

Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social... Read more

Tides

By: Jonathan White

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides.In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a... Read more

Other Minds

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds

Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the... Read more

The Animals Among Us

By: John Bradshaw

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading anthrozoologist and the bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense explains why we are so drawn to pets.

Historically, we relied on our pets to herd livestock, guard homes, and catch pests. But most of us don't need animals to do these things anymore. Pets have never been less necessary. And yet, pet ownership has never been more... Read more

Ocean Country

By: Liz Cunningham

Narrated by: Ellen Jaffe

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ocean Country is an adventure story, a call to action, and a poetic meditation on the state of the seas. But most importantly it is the story of finding true hope in the midst of one of the greatest crises to face humankind, the rapidly degrading state of our environment. After a near-drowning accident in which she was temporarily paralyzed, Liz... Read more

Asteroid Hunters

By: Carrie Nugent

Narrated by: Carrie Nugent

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, scientists could have the knowledge to prevent a natural disaster epic in scale—an asteroid hitting the earth and in this exciting, adventuresome book, Carrie Nugent explains how.

What are asteroids, and where do they come from? And, most urgently: Are they going to hit the Earth? What would happen if one was on its way?... Read more

The Water Will Come

By: Jeff Goodell

Narrated by: Ian Ferguson

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages.... Read more

Simply Clean

By: Becky Rapinchuk

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the cleaning and homekeeping expert and creator of the wildly popular Clean Mama blog comes a simple and accessible cleaning guide with a proven step-by-step schedule for tidying a home in just ten minutes a day.

Becky Rapinchuk, the “Clean Mama,” understands that many people don’t have the time, organizational skills, or homemaking habits... Read more

Climate of Hope

By: Michael Bloomberg & Carl Pope

Narrated by: Michael Bloomberg, Carl Pope & Charles Pellett

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Carl Pope and Charles Pellett with an introduction read by the author.

From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world... Read more

Self-Reliant Gardening

By: Janet Williams, Will Cook & Liv Montgomery

Narrated by: Liv Montgomery, Derek Doepker, Dan Culhane & Ba...

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Whether you are looking for a backup disaster plan or you just want to live a more self-reliant lifestyle, homegrown food and remedies offer you the freedom of choice to take care of yourself. To start with, this comprehensive program will show you how you can have homegrown, garden-fresh fruits and vegetables anytime and anywhere you want.... Read more

Fatal Flaws

By: Hank Hanegraaff

Narrated by: Hank Hanegraaff

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Materials drawn from The Face That Demonstrates The Farce of Evolution (ISBN 0-8499-4272-1) Today's generation is bombarded with theories about humankind and its origins. The danger for Christians lies in the wealth of misinformation and miscommunication about simple biblical truths such as: (1) How and when the world began, (2) Whether humans... Read more

Tyrannosaurus Sue

By: Steve Fiffer

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 65 million years ago in what is now South Dakota, a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch―perhaps mortally wounded in a ferocious fight―fell into the riverbed and died. In 1990 her skeleton was found, virtually complete, in what many have called the most spectacular dinosaur fossil discovery to date.And then another battle began—a... Read more

The Second John McPhee Reader, Part One

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction. McPhee, author of Coming Into the Country, and Assembling California punctuates his delightful prose with a sharp sense of humor and a fascination with things most of us never bother to notice. Whether he's working for a... Read more

The Second John McPhee Reader, Part Two

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction. McPhee, author of Coming Into the Country, punctuates his delightful prose with a sharp sense of humor, and a fascination with things most of us never bother to notice. Whether he's profiling a northern Maine game warden... Read more

The Wizard and the Prophet

By: Charles C. Mann

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493—an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.... Read more

Why Dinosaurs Matter

By: Kenneth Lacovara

Narrated by: Kenneth Lacovara

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

What can extinct dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth.

By tapping into the ubiquitous wonder that dinosaurs inspire, Lacovara weaves together the stories of our geological awakening, of humanity’s epic struggle to... Read more

Talking to Animals

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz—“a Thoreau for modern times” (San Antonio Express-News)—offers us a deeper understanding of the inner lives of animals and teaches us how we can more effectively communicate with them, made real by his own remarkable experiences with a wide array of creatures great and small.

In Talking to Animals,... Read more

Homing Instincts

By: Sarah Menkedick

Narrated by: Sarah Menkedick

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Menkedick spent her twenties trekking alone across South America, teaching English to recalcitrant teenagers on Réunion Island, picking grapes in France and camping on the Mongolian grasslands; for her, meaning and purpose were to be found on the road, in flight from the ordinary. Yet the biggest and most transformative adventure of her... Read more

Weather 101

By: Kathleen Sears

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this clear and straight new guide from the author of Grammar 101 and Weather 101, get a crash course in understanding the science behind weather and weather prediction.

Weather is everywhere, and while it’s typically not thought about most of the time, it can get everyone’s attention in an instant—whether it’s the swirling destruction of a... Read more

Junk Raft

By: Marcus Eriksen

Narrated by: James Cronin

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An exciting account of a scientist’s expedition across the Pacific on a home-made “junk raft” in order to learn more about plastic marine pollution

A scientist, activist, and inveterate adventurer, Eriksen and his co-navigator, Joel Paschal, construct a “junk raft” made of plastic trash and set themselves adrift from Los Angeles to Hawaii, with... Read more

Woolly

By: Ben Mezrich

Narrated by: Ben Mezrich

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel tells the fascinating Jurassic Park­-like story of the genetic restoration of an extinct species—the woolly mammoth. “Paced like a thriller…Woolly reanimates history and breathes new life into the narrative of nature” (NPR).

With his “unparalleled” (Booklist, starred... Read more

Lagom

By: Linnea Dunne

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Discover the Swedish ethos of balanced living with this little book of Lagom.

The Swedish concept of Lagom (pronounced "lah-gom") roughly translates to "not too little, not too much, just right." This charming book introduces readers to a new way of balanced living that promises happiness and sustainability in work and in life. Lagom provides... Read more

Odd Birds

By: Ian Harding

Narrated by: Ian Harding

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"Harding fondly shares observant moments in nature, during which his love of animals is evident in his pleasant tone punctuated by moments of awe." — AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.

A 7-time Teen Choice Award Winner on Freeform's most-watched series, Pretty Little Liars … A social media influencer with over 7 million... Read more

Visionary Women

By: Andrea Barnet

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 19 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Four influential women we thought we knew well—Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters—and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movementThis is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women—linked not by friendship or field, but by their choice to break with... Read more