Environment & Nature audiobooks

A Taste for the Beautiful

By: Michael J. Ryan

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Darwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant colors of butterflies and fishes to the songs of birds and frogs. He argued that animals have "a taste for the beautiful" that drives their potential mates to evolve features that make them more sexually attractive and... Read more

Still Waters

By: Curt Stager

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Lakes are changing rapidly today, not because we are separate from nature but because we are so connected to it. But while many of our effects on the natural world are new, from climate change to nuclear fallout, our connections to it are ancient, as core samples from lake beds reveal. In Still Waters, Curt Stager introduces us to the secret... Read more

Young Men and Fire

By: Norman Maclean

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back... Read more

America: The Farewell Tour

By: Chris Hedges

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate.

America, says Pulitzer Prize­–winning reporter Chris... Read more

all of it is you.

By: Nico Tortorella

Narrated by: Nico Tortorella

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A debut poetry collection from actor Nico Tortorella exploring “all of it,” from the smallest cells in our bodies to the outer limits of our universe. 
 
Nico Tortorella's debut poetry collection presents a singular voice honed through years as an actor, podcaster, and advocate, one colored with love, wonder, and endless curiosity. But it is also... Read more

Into the Storm

By: Tristram Korten

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“An intense, immersive deep dive into a wild, dangerous, and unknown world, written with the pace and appeal of a great thriller. This is nonfiction at its very best.”—Lee Child

The true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and-rescue operation that shines a light on the elite Coast Guard swimmers trained for the most dangerous ocean... Read more

The Climate Change Debate

By: the Speech Resource Company

Narrated by: the Speech Resource Company

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades climate scientists have been warning of the dangerous effects of the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. They have urged a variety of measures that might prevent some of those disasters they claim to foresee. Others deny the reality of human-caused climate change and believe that scientists’ warnings about the impact... Read more

Run the Storm

By: George Michelsen Foy

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, “an exquisitely written and dramatic book…a literary page-turner” (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers)—the 2015 mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that sank in the Bermuda Triangle, taking with it... Read more

The Weather Detective

By: Peter Wohlleben

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.

The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.

In this first-ever English translation of The Weather Detective,... Read more

The Hunter's Way

By: Craig Raleigh

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Craig Raleigh puts hunting into modern perspective, combining higher sensibilities and his firsthand insight into the hunting world to gently illuminate a part of human nature that was, and still is, among the purest of human endeavors.” —Jim Shockey, award-winning writer and host of Jim Shockey’s Hunting Adventures and UnchartedA thoughtful... Read more

We're Doomed. Now What?

By: Roy Scranton

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The time we've been thrown into is one of alarming and bewildering change—the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies mass extinction, and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. Now what?



We're Doomed, Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series... Read more

A Handful of Happiness

By: Massimo Vacchetta

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A feel-good memoir of a man and his hedgehogMassimo Vacchetta, an Italian veterinarian specializing in large animals, is recently divorced and feeling heartbroken and depressed―until the day that someone brings an orphaned baby hedgehog into his clinic. As the tiny hedgehog cries and whimpers, Massimo immediately understands the extent of the... Read more

Into the Raging Sea

By: Rachel Slade

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro's sinking.”
—Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of FacebookOn October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole,... Read more

Inconvenient Facts

By: Gregory Wrightstone

Narrated by: Brian Holsopple

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

You have been inundated with reports from media, governments, think tanks, and “experts” saying that our climate is changing for the worse and it is our fault. Increases in droughts, heat waves, tornadoes, and poison ivy—to name a few—are all blamed on our “sins of emissions” from burning fossil fuels and increasing carbon dioxide in the... Read more

The Milk Lady of Bangalore

By: Shoba Narayan

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

When Shoba Narayan, a writer and cookbook author who had lived for years in Manhattan, moves back to Bangalore with her family, she befriends the milk lady, from whom she buys fresh milk every day. These two women from very different backgrounds bond over not only cows, considered holy in India, but also family, food, and life. After Narayan... Read more

Humankind

By: Timothy Morton

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A radical call for solidarity between humans and nonhumans



What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and nonlife, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed object-oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites us to consider this philosophical... Read more

This Is the Way the World Ends

By: Jeff Nesbit

Narrated by: Jeff Nesbit

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"With This is the Way the World Ends Jeff Nesbit has delivered an enlightening - and alarming - explanation of the climate challenge as it exists today. Climate change is no far-off threat. It's impacting communities all over the world at this very moment, and we ignore the scientific reality at our own peril. The good news? As Nesbit... Read more

Breakpoint

By: Jeremy B. C. Jackson & Steve Chapple

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Eminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award-winning journalist Steve Chapple traveled the length of the Mississippi River interviewing farmers, fishermen, scientists, and policymakers to better understand the mounting environmental problems ravaging the United States. Along their journey, which quickly expands to California, Florida, and... Read more

Plight of the Living Dead

By: Matt Simon

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature—and ourselves

Zombieism isn’t just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It’s real, and it’s happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and moose—and even humans.

In Plight of the Living Dead,... Read more

Storm Lake

By: Art Cullen

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"A reminder that even the smallest newspapers can hold the most powerful among us accountable."—The New York Times Book Review

Watch the documentary Storm Lake on PBS.

Iowa plays an outsize role in national politics. Iowa introduced Barack Obama and voted bigly for Donald Trump. But is it a bellwether for America, a harbinger of its future? Art... Read more

A Life Less Throwaway

By: Tara Button

Narrated by: Tara Button

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

A revolutionary guide to the art of mindful buying that will teach you how to resist cheaply made goods and make smart, fulfilling purchases that last a lifetime.

With the whole world trying to convince us to spend our way to happiness, we’ve been left cluttered, stressed, and unfulfilled. Tara Button, founder of BuyMeOnce, is at the forefront... Read more

The Doggie in the Window

By: Rory Kress

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When journalist Rory Kress met Izzie, she didn't think twice before bringing her home. She found the twelve-week-old wheaten terrier in a pet shop and was handed paperwork showing Izzie had been born in a USDA-licensed breeding facility—so she couldn't be a puppy mill dog, right?



But a few years later, as Rory embarked on her own difficult... Read more

The End of Animal Farming

By: Jacy Reese

Narrated by: Thom Rivera

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold yet realistic vision of how technology and social change are creating a food system in which we no longer use animals to produce meat, dairy, or eggs.

Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals brought widespread attention to the disturbing realities of factory farming. The End of Animal Farming... Read more

Forest Therapy

By: Sarah Ivens

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From a bestselling author, a guide to building a happier life by connecting with nature–without having to go too far the comfort of your own home. Perfect for fans of The Nature Fix and The Little Book of Hygge.

Research shows that spending time outside can improve your immune system, combat stress hormones, lower blood pressure, and boost... Read more