Environment & Nature audiobooks

Liberación animal

By: Peter Singer

Narrated by: Arturo López

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora la Biblia de quienes luchan por los derechos de los animales, con prólogo de Yuval Harari . Este revolucionario libro, ahora disponible en formato audiolibro, inspiró, desde su publicación original en 1975, un movimiento mundial de defensa de los derechos de los animales que aspira a transformar nuestra actitud hacia ellos y... Read more

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight Revised and Updated

By: Thom Hartmann

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

While everything appears to be collapsing around us—ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars—we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary movie The 11th... Read more

The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth

By: Rachel Ignotofsky

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating tour of the planet exploring ecosystems large and small, from reefs, deserts, and rainforests to a single drop of water—from the New York Times bestselling author of Women in Science



Making earth science accessible and entertaining, The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth explains how our planet works—and how we can protect it—from... Read more

The Song of the Dodo

By: David Quammen

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 24 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“Compulsively readable—a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” —Bill McKibben, Audubon

A brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times. Through personal observation, scientific theory, and history, David Quammen examines the... Read more

Losing Earth

By: Nathaniel Rich

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is an important, infuriating, enlightening, engaging, and engrossing audiobook...Anyone wishing to learn how the world has gotten to the point of almost inevitable climate disaster will be well served by listening to Godfrey's measured but emphatic reading." — AudioFile Magazine

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today... Read more

Dirt to Soil

By: Gabe Brown

Narrated by: Gabe Brown

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabe Brown didn’t set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm. Brown—in an effort to simply survive—began... Read more

The Way Through the Woods

By: Litt Woon Long

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing—hunting for mushrooms.

“Moving . . .  Long tells the story of finding hope after despair lightly and artfully, with self-effacement and so much gentle good nature.”—The New York Times

Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They... Read more

Emperors of the Deep

By: William McKeever

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this remarkable groundbreaking book, a documentarian and conservationist, determined to dispel misplaced fear and correct common misconceptions, explores in-depth the secret lives of sharks—magnificent creatures who play an integral part in maintaining the health of the world’s oceans and ultimately the planet.

From the Jaws blockbusters to... Read more

The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By: Marta McDowell

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The universal appeal of Laura Ingalls Wilder springs from a life lived in partnership with the land, on farms she and her family settled across the Northeast and Midwest. In this revealing exploration of Wilder's deep connection with the natural world, Marta McDowell follows the wagon trail of the beloved Little House series. You'll learn... Read more

Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass

By: Harold Gatty

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

During his remarkable lifetime, Harold Gatty became one of the world's great navigators (in 1931, he and Wiley Post flew around the world in a record-breaking eight days) and, to the benefit of posterity, recorded in this book much of his accumulated knowledge about pathfinding both on land and at sea.



Applying methods used by primitive peoples... Read more

The Secret Language of Cats

By: Susanne Schotz

Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered what your cat is saying?



Cats do not meow randomly, nor do they growl or hiss because they have nothing better to do. Cat sounds have a purpose, and they can carry important messages, whether for us or other cats.



Susanne Schötz is hard at work on breaking the cat code. She is a professor at Lund University in Sweden,... Read more

Walking with Henry

By: Rachel Anne Ridge

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Just when you think it's the end of your story . . . grace shows up.



Sometimes it arrives as a moment of joy in the middle of despair. Sometimes you find it next to a trusted friend along an old, well-trodden path. And sometimes, grace has fuzzy ears, a bristled mane, and hope for a new start.



Join Rachel Anne Ridge, author of the beloved memoir... Read more

End Times

By: Bryan Walsh

Narrated by: Bryan Walsh & Corey Carthew

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this history of extinction and existential risk, a Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist examines our most dangerous mistakes -- and explores how we can protect and future-proof our civilization.
End Times is a compelling work of skilled reportage that peels back the layers of complexity around the unthinkable --... Read more

Life Finds a Way

By: Andreas Wagner

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science
In Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfection--instead, "progress" is typically marked... Read more

The Uninhabitable Earth

By: David Wallace-Wells

Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon

With a new afterword

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are... Read more

A Bear's Life

By: Ian McAllister & Nicholas Read

Narrated by: Heather Gould

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Black bears, grizzly bears, and spirit bears all make their home in the Great Bear Rainforest. A Bear's Life uses Ian McAllister's stunning photographs to follow these beautiful animals through a year in the British Columbia wilderness—catching fish, eating berries, climbing trees and taking long naps. A Bear's Life is the second in the My... Read more

Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine

By: Beth Porter

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Ecosystems require balance to survive, and when that balance is compromised, as in the extinction of a resource or a species, disaster can fall onto the system as a whole. This vital management of resources can be seen in economic systems, as well. A healthy ecosystem is like a healthy economy, with competing mechanics inadvertently working in... Read more

Down from the Mountain

By: Bryce Andrews

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The grizzly is one of North America's few remaining large predators. Their range is diminished, but they're spreading across the West again. Descending into valleys where once they were king, bears find the landscape they'd known for eons utterly changed by the new most dominant animal: humans. As the grizzlies approach, the people of the region... Read more

Stronghold

By: Tucker Malarkey

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

PNBA BESTSELLER • “A powerful and inspiring story. Guido Rahr’s mission to save the wild Pacific salmon leads him into adventures that make for a breathtakingly exciting read.”—Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia

Editors’ Choice: The New York Times Book Review • Outside Magazine • National Book Review • Forbes

In the tradition of Mountains... Read more

Island on Fire

By: Alexandra Witze & Jeff Kanipe

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the eighteenth century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, and even perhaps revolution. Laki is Iceland’s largest volcano—and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history’s great, untold natural disasters. Spewing out... Read more

Birds by the Shore

By: Jennifer Ackerman

Narrated by: Jennifer Ackerman

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, the revised and reissued edition of her beloved book of essays describing her forays along the Delaware shore

For three years, Jennifer Ackerman lived in the small coastal town of Lewes, Delaware, in the sort of blue-water, white-sand landscape that draws summer crowds up and down the eastern... Read more

How to Make a Plant Love You

By: Summer Rayne Oakes

Narrated by: Summer Rayne Oakes, Simon Sinek & Kaleo Griffith

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Summer Rayne Oakes, an urban houseplant expert and environmental scientist, is the icon of wellness-minded millennials who want to bring nature indoors, according to a New York Times profile. Summer has managed to grow 1,000 houseplants in her Brooklyn apartment (and they're thriving!) Her secret? She approaches her relationships with plants as... Read more

This Land

By: Christopher Ketcham

Narrated by: Christopher Ketcham

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea for the protection of these last wild places

The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as... Read more

Downriver

By: Heather Hansman

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country, as it provides water for 33 million... Read more