Environment & Nature audiobooks

All Creation Waits

By: Gayle Boss

Narrated by: Gayle Boss

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

 Open a window each day of Advent onto the natural world. The author reads twenty-five descriptions of wild animals of the northern hemisphere ingeniously adapting when darkness and cold descend. All of them reveal the ancient wisdom of Advent: The dark is not an end but a door, the way a new beginning comes.These short, daily reflections paint... Read more

The Dogs of Avalon

By: Laura Schenone

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Greyhounds, streaks of lightning, were bred to be the fastest dogs on earth. Yet for decades tens of thousands were destroyed, abandoned, and abused each year when they couldn't run fast enough. Scrappy Marion Fitzgibbon, whose empathy for animals made her relentless, became obsessed with saving these dogs—despite the overwhelming power of... Read more

The Nature Fix

By: Florence Williams

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; Nikola Tesla conceived the electric motor while visiting a park. Intrigued by our storied renewal in the natural world, Florence Williams sets out to uncover the... Read more

The Tide

By: Hugh Aldersey Williams

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the epic story of the centuries-long search to understand the tide: from Aristotle, said to have drowned himself when he failed to figure out the Greek tides, to the pioneering investigations into the role of the moon by Galileo and Newton, to supercomputing in our own time. Celebrated science writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams whisks the... Read more

The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

By: Robert Penn

Narrated by: Robert Penn

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is the most closely bound up with who we are. From tool handles to arrows, wheels and bowls to furniture and baseball bats, humans have made more and varied use of ash than any other kind of wood. Journeying across the English-speaking world, Robert Penn meets craftsmen with rare skills and a knowledge... Read more

Eruption

By: Steve Olson

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Survival narrative meets scientific, natural, and social history in the riveting story of a volcanic disaster. For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the longquiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared.... Read more

Trooper

By: Forrest Bryant Johnson

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Whenever middle-aged desert tour guide Forrest Bryant Johnson went out on his daily walks into the Mojave, all was usually peaceful and serene. But one beautiful summer day in 1987, Forrest heard a cry of distress. Following the cries, he came upon a small bobcat kitten, injured, orphaned, and desperately in need of help. So Forrest took his new... Read more

Extreme Cities

By: Ashley Dawson

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion's share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea... Read more

Save The Planet

By: Almir Narayamoga Surui, BS & Corine Sombrun

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Almir Narayamoga Suruí, the Amazonian tribal chieftain of the indigenous Suruí people, is a leader in the fight to save the rainforest not only for the preservation of his land and people, but for the Earth's and humanity's survival as well.



Joining forces with such high-tech corporations as Apple and Google Earth, Suruí has become a guardian of... Read more

Arthur

By: Mikael Lindnord

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic true story of an extreme athlete, a stray dog, and how they found each other—now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Mark Walhberg and Simu Liu.



When you're racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing you need is a stray dog tagging along. But that's exactly what happened to Mikael... Read more

The Aliens Among Us

By: Leslie Anthony

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From an award-winning adventure and science journalist comes an eye-opening exploration of a burgeoning environmental phenomenon and the science coalescing around it. Leslie Anthony leads listeners on adventures physical and philosophical as he explores how and why invasive species are hijacking ecosystems around the globe.



Weaving science,... Read more

Bear Attacks

By: Stephen Herrero

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Of the animals in North America, none commands such dread, awe, and interest as the bear. Creatures that fear little, bears compete for survival with the only other animals that can threaten their existence: Humans.



Bear Attacks is a thorough and unflinching study of attacks made on humans. This is the sometimes horrific, yet always instructive,... Read more

What It's Like to Be a Dog

By: Gregory Berns

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step: they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner—completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different value systems, and a complex understanding of human... Read more

The Age of the Horse

By: Susanna Forrest

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth—and beginning with the first-known horse-keepers of the Copper Age, the horse has played an integral part in human history. Combining fascinating anthropological detail and incisive personal anecdotes, Susanna Forrest draws from an immense range of archival documents as well as... Read more

The Rights of Nature

By: David R. Boyd

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand's Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building—in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to... Read more

The Climate Swerve

By: Robert Jay Lifton

Narrated by: Rudy Sanda

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award–winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton writes, "presents us with what may be the most demanding and... Read more

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)

By: Lee Alan Dugatkin & Lyudmila Trut

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs—they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken—imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a... Read more

The Horse God Built

By: Lawrence Scanlan

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Horse God Built, bestselling equestrian writer Lawrence Scanlan has written a tribute to an exceptional man that is also a backroads journey to a corner of the racing world rarely visited.



As a young black man growing up in South Carolina, Eddie Sweat struggled at several occupations before settling on the job he was born for—groom to... Read more

Mini Farming

By: Brett L. Markham

Narrated by: Christopher Solimene

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce eighty-five percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre—and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require.



Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, this book covers... Read more

The Wonder of Birds

By: Jim Robbins

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Birds, Jim Robbins posits, are our most vital connection to nature. They compel us to look to the skies, both literally and metaphorically; draw us out into nature to seek their beauty; and let us experience vicariously what it is like to be weightless. Birds have helped us in so many of our human endeavors: learning to fly, providing clothing... Read more

Witness Tree

By: Lynda V. Mapes

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Climate science can seem dense, remote, and abstract. But through the lens of this one tree, it becomes immediate and intimate.



In Witness Tree, environmental reporter Lynda V. Mapes takes us through her year living with one red oak at the Harvard Forest. We learn about carbon cycles and leaf physiology, but also experience the seasons as people... Read more

Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs

By: Roger Lederer

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don't see is the arduous, life-threatening challenges they face at every moment. Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs guides the listener through the myriad, and often almost miraculous, things that... Read more

The Hidden Lives of Owls

By: Leigh Calvez

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, a naturalist probes the forest to comprehend the secret lives of owls. Leigh Calvez takes listeners on an adventure into the world of owls: owl-watching, avian science, and the deep forest—often in the dead of night. These birds are a bit mysterious, and that's part of what makes them so fascinating. Calvez... Read more

Becoming Animal

By: David Abram

Narrated by: David Abram

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our muscled flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a... Read more