Environment & Nature audiobooks

Kiss the Ground

By: Josh Tickell

Narrated by: Josh Tickell

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From Josh Tickell, one of America’s most celebrated documentary filmmakers, comes a “fascinating, easy-to-follow blueprint for how eating in ways that nourish and regenerate the soil can not only help reverse global warming, but also bring greater vitality to our lives” (Wolfgang Puck).

“A must read for anyone committed to healing our bodies and... Read more

Underground

By: Will Hunt

Narrated by: Will Hunt

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] winningly obsessive history of our relationship with underground places” (The Guardian), from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR

When Will... Read more

Boying Up

By: Mayim Bialik

Narrated by: Mayim Bialik

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Mayim Bialik, Jeopardy! host and star of The Big Bang Theory and author of the #1 bestseller Girling Up, puts her Ph.D. to work to talk to teen boys about the science and pressures of growing up male in today's world. A must-have book for all teenage boys!

Why does my voice crack like that? What should I eat to build muscle? How do I talk to... Read more

What is Climate Change?

By: Gail Herman & Who HQ

Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet.

The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate change become a political issue? Are humans at fault? Is this just a natural development? While the vast majority of scientists who study the... Read more

Tying Down the Wind

By: Eric Pinder

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Where can you find the worst weather on earth? The surprising answer in Tying Down the Wind is: everywhere. You don’t need to climb Mount Everest or voyage to the icy desert of Antarctica to witness both the beauty and the destructiveness of weather. The same forces are at work in your own backyard.Eric Pinder, certified observer at Mount... Read more

The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

By: Peter Wohlleben, Translation by Jane Billinghur...

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Like The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben's The Inner Life of Animals will rock your world. Surprising, humbling, and filled with delight, this book shows us that animals think, feel and know in much the same way as we do--and that their lives are, to them, as precious as ours are to us."
—Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an... Read more

The Secret Life of Cows

By: Rosamund Young

Narrated by: Rosamund Young

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"Within a day of receiving this book, I had consumed it... Absorbing, moving, and compulsively readable."—Lydia Davis

In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals

At her famous Kite's Nest Farm in Worcestershire,... Read more

The Omega Principle

By: Paul Greenberg

Narrated by: Paul Greenberg

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

By the bestselling author of Four Fish and American Catch, an eye-opening investigation of the history, science, and business behind omega-3 fatty acids, the "miracle compound" whose story is intertwined with human health and the future of our planet

Omega-3 fatty acids have long been celebrated by doctors and dieticians as key to a healthy heart... Read more

Tamed and Untamed

By: Sy Montgomery & Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Narrated by: Sy Montgomery & Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Extraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures from two of the world’s top animal authors, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Sy Montgomery. A Mail on Sunday “Critic's Pick” Best Read of the Year "In their writing and in their lives and in their remarkable friendship, Liz and Sy break down false barriers and carry us... Read more

The Optimistic Environmentalist

By: David R. Boyd

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges - climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved, while substantial... Read more

What a Fish Knows

By: Jonathan Balcombe

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to... Read more

About Fish / Sobre los peces

By: Cathryn Sill

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This beginner's guide offers a first glimpse into the natural world of fish. In this bilingual addition to the acclaimed About. series, educator and author Cathryn Sill uses simple, easy-to-understand language to teach children the basic characteristics of what fish are, how they swim, breathe, and reproduce, and the different ways they protect... Read more

The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar

By: Matt Simon

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the man behind the popular Wired series "Absurd Creature of the Week," a fun, fascinating collection of unique animals and the unbelievable evolutionary traits they use to survive the most extreme scenarios From Wired columnist Matt Simon, The Wasp that Brainwashed the Caterpillar is an absurdist, comical romp through evolution's weirdest... Read more

The Fate of Rome

By: Kyle Harper

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient world

Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book... Read more

Soul Full of Coal Dust

By: Chris Hamby

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down. Decades ago, a grassroots uprising forced Congress to enact long-overdue legislation designed to... Read more

House of Rain

By: Craig Childs

Narrated by: Craig Childs

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A "beautifully written travelogue" that draws on the latest scholarly research as well as a lifetime of exploration to light on the extraordinary Anasazi culture of the American Southwest (Entertainment Weekly). 

The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century... Read more

Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition

By: Marc Reisner

Narrated by: Lawrie Mott, Francis J Spieler & Kate Udall

Length: 27 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise... Read more

Atlas of a Lost World

By: Craig Childs

Narrated by: Craig Childs

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates.In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How... Read more

Deep Survival

By: Laurence Gonzales

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference?Examining such stories of miraculous endurance and tragic... Read more

Fatal Forecast

By: Michael J. Tougias

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Fatal Forecast chronicles a dramatic fight for survival aboard two small fishing boats that were caught in a horrific surprise storm off of Cape Cod. Soon after the Fair Wind and the Sea Fever reached the fishing ground at Georges Bank, they were hit with hurricane-force winds and massive ninety-foot waves that battered the boats for hours and... Read more

North on the Wing

By: Bruce M. Beehler

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo three-month trek to track songbird migration and the northward progress of spring through America. Traveling via car, canoe, bike, and on foot, Beehler followed woodland warblers and other neotropical songbird species from the southern border of Texas, where the birds first... Read more

Gods, Wasps and Stranglers

By: Mike Shanahan

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Over millions of years, fig trees have shaped our world, influenced our evolution, nourished our bodies and fed our imaginations. And as author and ecologist Mike Shanahan proclaims, “The best could be yet to come.” Gods, Wasps and Stranglers weaves together the mythology, history and ecology of one of the world’s most fascinating—and... Read more

A Precautionary Tale

By: Philip Ackerman-Leist

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Mals, Italy, has long been known as the breadbasket of the Tyrol. But recently the tiny town became known for something else entirely. A Precautionary Tale tells us why, introducing readers to an unlikely group of activists and a forward-thinking mayor who came together to ban pesticides in Mals by a referendum vote—making it the first place on... Read more

The World in a Grain

By: Vince Beiser

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives.

After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on... Read more