Environment & Nature audiobooks

Climate Church, Climate World

By: Jim Antal

Narrated by: Jim Denison

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Climate Church, Climate World argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced. Hunger, refugees, poverty, inequality, deadly viruses, war—climate change multiplies all forms of global social injustice. Environmental leader Reverend Jim Antal presents a compelling case that it’s time for the church to meet this... Read more

Honey Farm Dreaming

By: Anna Featherstone

Narrated by: Rebecca Harper

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in this delightful memoir about a decade of life on a small Australian farm.

This is an audiobook for anyone who enjoys being transported to another life and lifestyle, or who is interested in bees, homesteading, small farming, animals, organic gardening, farmers markets, human nature and the hilarity and hardship that goes... Read more

Power Trip

By: Michael E. Webber

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A global tour of energy--the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat.

Energy is humanity's single most important resource. In fact, as energy expert Michael E. Webber argues in Power Trip, the story of how societies rise can be told largely as the story of how they manage energy sources through time. In 2019, as we face down... Read more

Geophysics

By: William Lowrie

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Very Short Introduction, William Lowrie describes the internal and external processes that affect the planet, as well as the principles and methods of geophysics used to investigate them. He explains how analysis of the seismic waves produced in earthquakes reveals the internal structure of the Earth. Geophysicists have established that... Read more

That Bear Ate My Pants!

By: Tony James Slater

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

There comes a time in every man's life when he says to himself, "Holy Sh*t! I'm about to be eaten by a bear!"



Tony James Slater went to Ecuador, determined to become a man. It never occurred to him that 'or die trying' might be an option . . .



The trouble with volunteering in a South American animal refuge is that everything wants a piece of... Read more

Down to the Wire

By: David W. Orr

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Down to the Wire is a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action. David Orr describes how political negligence, an economy based on the insatiable consumption of trivial goods, and a disdain for the well-being of future generations have brought us to the tipping point that biologist Edward O. Wilson... Read more

Dinosaurs

By: David Norman

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Dinosaurs are fascinating creatures and their popularity seems never ending, fueled by films such as Jurassic Park and documentaries such as Walking with Dinosaurs. Yet dinosaurs (or more precisely non-avian dinosaurs) last trod the Earth 65 million years ago. All we know of them today are their fossilized bones, the tracks and traces that they... Read more

The Sakura Obsession

By: Naoko Abe

Narrated by: Ellen Archer & Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible—and improbable—story of how an English eccentric saved Japan’s beloved cherry blossoms from extinction.

Collingwood Ingram—known as “Cherry” for his defining passion—was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change. Visiting Japan in 1902 and again in 1907, he fell in love with... Read more

I am Jane Goodall

By: Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: Lauren Baldwin & Various

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times bestselling biography series from historian and author Brad Meltzer. Learn all about Jane Goodall, the chimpanzee scientist.
 
Each entry in this series is a biography of a significant historical figure, told in a simple, conversational, vivacious way, and always focusing... Read more

No Beast So Fierce

By: Dane Huckelbridge

Narrated by: Corey Snow

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping, multifaceted true account of the deadliest animal of all time and the hunter on its trail, equally comparable to Jaws as to Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard.""RIVETING."" —Scientific American • ""THRILLING."" —Wall Street Journal • ""GRIPPING."" —Nature Nepal, c. 1900: The single deadliest animal in recorded history began stalking... Read more

The Truth Has Changed

By: Josh Fox

Narrated by: Josh Fox & Tom Parks

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Emmy Award–winning creator of GASLAND tells his intimate and damning, personal story of our world in crisis. With a foreword by Bill McKibben.The rules have changed.
The water has changed.
The climate has changed.
The truth has changed.
We must change.In The Truth Has Changed, Josh Fox turns the rapid-fire shocks that are remaking the very... Read more

Vaquita

By: Brooke Bessesen

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2006, vaquita, a diminutive porpoise making its home in the Upper Gulf of California, inherited the dubious title of world’s most endangered marine mammal. Nicknamed “panda of the sea” for their small size and beguiling facial markings, vaquitas have been in decline for decades, dying by the hundreds in gillnets intended for commercially... Read more

Through a Glass Brightly

By: David P. Barash

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In Through a Glass Brightly, noted scientist David P. Barash explores the process by which science has, throughout time, cut humanity "down to size," and how humanity has responded. A good paradigm is a tough thing to lose, especially when its replacement leaves us feeling more vulnerable and less special. And yet, as science has progressed, we... Read more

Falcon

By: Helen Macdonald

Narrated by: Helen Macdonald

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Before best-selling author Helen Macdonald told the story of the goshawk in H Is for Hawk, she told the story of the falcon, in a cultural history of the masterful creature that can "cut the sky in two" with the "perfectly aerodynamic profile of a raindrop," as she so incisively puts it. In talon-sharp prose she explores the spell the falcon has... Read more

Counting Sheep

By: Axel Lindén

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Norwegian Wood meets The Tao of Pooh in this philosophical, witty, and heartwarming collection of daily observations from a Swedish academic-turned-sheep farmer who finds peace and meaning outside the hustle and bustle of modern, urban life.

One of the fun things about keeping sheep is that now and then it feels like something other than a job... Read more

Seaweed Chronicles

By: Susan Hand Shetterly

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Glimpse the wonders of a hidden world.



An ancient, and vital, part of nature's ecosystem, seaweed is now emerging as an increasingly important source of food in a world faced with diminishing natural resources.



In Seaweed Chronicles, acclaimed nature writer Susan Hand Shetterly opens a window into the world of this fascinating organism by... Read more

Food from the Radical Center

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

America has never felt more divided. But in the midst of all the acrimony comes one of the most promising movements in our country's history. People of all races, faiths, and political persuasions are coming together to restore America's natural wealth: its ability to produce healthy foods.



In Food from the Radical Center, Gary Nabhan tells the... Read more

Geology

By: Jan Zalasiewicz

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Very Short Introduction Jan Zalasiewicz gives a brief introduction to the fascinating field of geology. Describing how the science developed from its early beginnings, he looks at some of the key discoveries that have transformed it, before delving into its various subfields, such as sedimentology, tectonics, and stratigraphy. Analyzing... Read more

All Hell Breaking Loose

By: Michael T. Klare

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

All Hell Breaking Loose is an eye-opening examination of climate change from the perspective of the U.S. military.

The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change—still linked, for many people, with polar bears and coral reefs. Yet of all the major institutions in American... Read more

Falter

By: Bill McKibben

Narrated by: Bill McKibben & Oliver Wyman

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Oliver Wyman's] skillful, nuanced performance is enough to keep listeners from tossing their earbuds aside in despair...This isn't easy listening, but it's essential for anyone concerned about humanity's future." — AudioFile Magazine

This program includes a foreword read by the author.

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest... Read more

Burning Planet

By: Andrew C. Scott

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land, large-scale fires have played their part in shaping life on Earth.



Andrew C. Scott tells the whole... Read more

Orca

By: Jason M. Colby

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and his own family history, Jason M. Colby tells the exhilarating and often heartbreaking story of how people came to love the ocean's greatest predator. Historically reviled as dangerous pests, killer whales were dying by the hundreds, even thousands, by the 1950s—the victims of... Read more

The Deep History of Ourselves

By: Joseph LeDoux

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings today

Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning... Read more

Climate

By: Charles Eisenstein

Narrated by: Steve Wojtas

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A stirring case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction
 
With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our “fight” mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change... Read more