Environment & Nature audiobooks

The Poisoned City

By: Anna Clark

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - 2019

When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.

Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes.... Read more

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

By: Steve Brusatte

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. ""THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY.""  — Scientific AmericanThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs... Read more

The Spinning Magnet

By: Alanna Mitchell

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The mystery of Earth's invisible, life-supporting power

Alanna Mitchell's globe-trotting history of the science of electromagnetism and the Earth's magnetic field--right up to the latest indications that the North and South Poles may soon reverse, with apocalyptic results--will soon change the way you think about our planet.

Award-winning... Read more

The B Corp Handbook

By: Ryan Honeyman

Narrated by: Ryan Honeyman

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Join a Growing movement: Learn how you can join a fast-growing global movement to redefine success in business—led by well-known icons like Patagonia and Ben & Jerry’s as well as disruptive upstarts like Warby Parker and Etsy—recently covered by the New York Times, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and Inc.

Build a... Read more

Very, Very, Very Dreadful

By: Albert Marrin

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic--and its chilling and timely resemblance to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak.

In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of... Read more

The Untold History of Healing

By: Wolf D. Storl

Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This captivating history of medicine traces healing practices from the Stone Age to modern times, highlighting ancient knowledge and plant-based treatments.

This absorbing history of medicine takes the reader on a sweeping journey, revealing that Western medicine has its origins not only in the academic tradition of doctors and pharmacists, but... Read more

Fisherman's Blues

By: Anna Badkhen

Narrated by: Anna Badkhen

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE

An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed.

The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere.

For... Read more

The Plant Messiah

By: Carlos Magdalena

Narrated by: Roy McMillan

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An impassioned memoir of saving extraordinary plants on the brink of extinction, by a scientist who has been called a "codebreaker" (Telegraph) and "an inspiration" (Jane Goodall)

Carlos Magdalena is not your average horticulturist. He's a man on a mission to save the world's most endangered plants. First captivated by the flora of his native... Read more

The Seabird's Cry

By: Adam Nicolson

Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sounding appropriately David Attenborough-esque, Dugald Bruce-Lockhart narrates this in-depth look at the lives of 10 species of seabirds." — AudioFile Magazine

Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."

A global tragedy is... Read more

Wild Embers

By: Nikita Gill

Narrated by: Nikita Gill

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover a powerful and relatable poetry collection of love, loss, and healing -- perfect for fans of Rupi Kaur and Amanda Lovelace.

In this magical poetry collection, Nikita Gill unflinchingly explores the fire in every woman and the emotions that lie deep in one's soul. Featuring rewritten fairytale heroines, goddess wisdom, and verse that... Read more

The Big Ones

By: Dr. Lucy Jones

Narrated by: Dr. Lucy Jones

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

By the world-renowned seismologist, a riveting history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to come

Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes--they stem from the same forces that give our planet life. Earthquakes give us natural springs; volcanoes produce fertile soil. It is only... Read more

Rising from the Plains

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Annals of the Former World is the result of a 20-year journey. During that time, John McPhee, author of 25 books and noted writer for the New Yorker, crisscrossed the United States, roughly following the 40th parallel. The geological insights and wonderful descriptions McPhee packed into his accounts of these trips earned his remarkable book a... Read more

Mousy Cats and Sheepish Coyotes

By: John A. Shivik

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A wildlife expert explores what science tells us about animals as unique individuals and why animal personality matters for the human-animal bond and for adaptation in nature.

Why are some cats cuddly and others standoffish? Why are some dogs adventuresome, others homebodies? As any pet owner can attest, we feel that the animals we’ve formed... Read more

Ice Diaries

By: Jean McNeil

Narrated by: Bridget Wareham

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent — Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth that is nobody’s country. Ice Diaries is the... Read more

Fallout

By: Fred Pearce

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

An investigation into our complicated 8-decade-long relationship with nuclear technology, from the bomb to nuclear accidents to nuclear waste.

From Hiroshima to Chernobyl, Fukushima to the growing legacy of lethal radioactive waste, humanity’s struggle to conquer atomic energy is rife with secrecy, deceit, human error, blatant disregard for life,... Read more

This Land Is Our Land

By: Ken Ilgunas

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines that are mostly closed off to the public. Meanwhile,... Read more

The Lambs

By: Carole George

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“An enchanting book—please read.” —Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE; Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

In this touching audiobook memoir about the relationship between father, daughter, and animals, Carole George explores life after adopting thirteen pet Karakul lambs. Throughout her years with the lambs and her aging father,... Read more

Chosen Country

By: James Pogue

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In Chosen Country, listeners are given an extraordinary inside look at America’s militia movement that shows a country at the crossroads of class, culture, and insurrection.

In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation of the Malheur National... Read more

Out of the Clouds

By: Linda Carroll & David Rosner

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition ofthe The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time and the richest racehorse the world had ever seen.

In the wake of... Read more

The Fair Chase

By: Philip Dray

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning historian tells the story of hunting in America, showing how this sport has shaped our national identity.

From Daniel Boone to Teddy Roosevelt, hunting is one of America's most sacred-but also most fraught-traditions. It was promoted in the 19th century as a way to reconnect "soft" urban Americans with nature and to the legacy... Read more

The Patch

By: Chris Turner

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Chris Turner brings readers onto the streets of Fort McMurray, showing the myriad ways the oil sands impact our lives and demanding that we ask the question: To both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch?The Patch is the story of Fort McMurray and the oil sands in northern Alberta, the world’s second... Read more

Kings of the Yukon

By: Adam Weymouth

Narrated by: Charlie Anson

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling journey by canoe across Alaska, by critically acclaimed writer Adam Weymouth.

The Yukon river is 2,000 miles long, the longest stretch of free-flowing river in the United States. In this riveting examination of one of the last wild places on earth, Adam Weymouth canoes along the river's length, from Canada's Yukon Territory, through... Read more

The White Cascade

By: Gary Krist

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From renowned writer and travel journalist Gary Krist comes the never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in U.S. history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche.

In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking... Read more

Give a Sh*t

By: Ashlee Piper

Narrated by: Ashlee Piper

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"The time for stepping up and protecting our planet is now. And this book is an easy, enjoyable place to start." -- Moby

It's time to put your good intentions into action. It's time to give a shit -- about your health, your footprint, and your planet.

Give a Sh*t guides you through the transition to a kinder, healthier, more conscious, and... Read more