Environment & Nature audiobooks

Nature's Wild Ideas

By: Kristy Hamilton

Narrated by: Patricia Shade

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

When astronomers wanted a telescope that could capture X-rays from celestial bodies, they looked to the lobster. When doctors wanted a medication that could stabilize Type II diabetic patients, they found their muse in a lizard. When scientists wanted to drastically reduce emissions in cement manufacturing, they observed how corals construct... Read more

National Geographic Birding Basics

By: Noah Strycker

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Targeted to beginners and beyond, National Geographic's fun, inspiring guide to the art, craft, and science of bird-watching combines practical know-how and expert knowledge. Browsable and bursting with helpful illustrations and photographs, Birding Basics offers new ideas for when, where, and how to get to know the birds in your world. Not a... Read more

Walking with Spring

By: Earl V. Shaffer

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1948, the Appalachian Trail had been a continuous, 2,000-mile footpath for eleven years, but no one had walked its length alone in a continuous journey—until Earl Shaffer, a quiet Pennsylvanian, became a hiking legend and the first of what is now more than 5,500 A.T. "thru-hikers," walking from Georgia to Maine as spring arrived to each area.... Read more

Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World

By: Ridge Shinn & Lynn Pledger

Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities of our globalized food system and highlighted the desperate need for local and regional supplies of healthy meat. We must replace corn-based feedlots, which are responsible for significant climate emissions, nitrogen pollution, and animal suffering. Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World... Read more

Living for Future

By: Corentin de Chatelperron

Narrated by: Jan Sören Meyer

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Nachhaltigkeit mit Zukunft: Wie man wirklich umweltbewusst leben kann Zwei Hühner, eine Ente und ein paar Pflanzen: Viel mehr hat Corentin de Chatelperron nicht im Gepäck, als er für vier Monate auf eine schwimmende Bambusplattform in Thailand zieht. Sein Ziel: Mit kreativen Low-Tech-Lösungen eine eigene Biosphäre schaffen und als... Read more

The Nature of Economies

By: Jane Jacobs

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Decades after The Death and Life of Great American Cities forever changed the field of urban studies, Jane Jacobs—one of the few contemporary thinkers whose works will remain in print for generations—brought us a modern classic on economies and ecology. Original and eloquent, this book looks at the connection between the economy and nature,... Read more

Drawing Out Leviathan

By: Keith M. Parsons

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

" . . . are dinosaurs social constructs? Might not all of our beliefs about dinosaurs merely be figments of the paleontological imagination? A few years ago such questions would have seemed preposterous, even nonsensical. Now they must have a serious answer."

At stake in the "Science Wars" that have raged in academe and in the media is nothing... Read more

Silent Spring Revolution

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 29 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of... Read more

Musical Tables

By: Billy Collins

Narrated by: Billy Collins

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love, a collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, and each a thought or observation compressed to its emotional essence

“Whenever I pick up a new book of poems, I flip through the pages looking for small ones. Just as... Read more

The Trials of Life

By: David Attenborough

Narrated by: David Attenborough

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. ‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on... Read more

The Salton Sea: The History of America’s Most Unique Lake

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: David van der Molan

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the list of popular American geological oddities and attractions, one sizeable phenomenon remains surprisingly unfamiliar to the average citizen. This may be due in part to its remote desert location, but perception of the Salton Sea in southern California is also laden with environmental concerns and is in a constant state of flux. The... Read more

An Inconvenient Apocalypse

By: Wes Jackson & Robert Jensen

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse—yet the only implemented solutions have been small and convenient, feel-good initiatives that avoid unpleasant truths about the root causes of our impending disaster. Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen argue that we must reconsider the origins of the consumption crisis... Read more

Nineteen Reservoirs

By: Lucy Sante

Narrated by: Lucy Sante

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Without the nineteen upstate reservoirs that supply its water, New York City as we know it would not exist today.



From 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. This feat of engineering served to meet New York... Read more

Blue Horses

By: Mary Oliver

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature.Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and impermanence. Whether considering a bird’s nest, the seeming... Read more

Lichtblick statt Blackout - Abridged

By: Vince Ebert

Narrated by: Vince Ebert

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gedankenblitze statt Blackout! Kann eine Nation, die mit dem Bau eines Flughafens überfordert war, wirklich das Weltklima retten? Und lässt sich die Erderwärmung reduzieren, wenn man das Eisfach offen lässt? Mit humoristischer Feder hinterfragt Vince Ebert unseren Ehrgeiz, die Welt zu retten. Klimaforschung ist objektive Wissenschaft.... Read more

KF Mezzi 8 - Milli steins og sleggju

By: Daniel Zimakoff

Narrated by: Árni Beinteinn Árnason

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Lífið leikur við félaga KF Mezzi, Tómas er kominn í meistarabúðir á Karólínuvelli og allt er eins og best verður á kosið ... eða hvað?Tómas þarf jú líka að sinna skólanum, vinunum og kærustunni og það er ekki auðvelt að halda svona mörgum boltum á lofti. Hann þarf hann að hafa sig allan við að koma jafnvægi aftur á - og bjarga KF Mezzi!KF Mezzi... Read more

Bring Me Back Home, New Orleans

By: Asia Briana Brown

Narrated by: Asia Briana Brown

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“Dear New Orleans, I miss you. Crescent City, I love you.” On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated a number of homes and communities, scattering families as they sought refuge. Bring Me Back Home, New Orleans, is a Katrina survivor’s story of loss told through poetry, a reflection on home, and an ode to New Orleans. Read more

HowExpert Guide to Show Pigs

By: HowExpert & Keiren Cook

Narrated by: Robert Taylor

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to learn how to breed, raise, and prepare show hogs for pig shows, then check out HowExpert Guide to Show Pigs. This guide is an information-dense piece of text that is a step-by-step guide for raising show pigs from farrow to table.In the first section of the book, you will discover everything there is to know about picking a sow... Read more

The Age of Resilience

By: Jeremy Rifkin

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our species will thrive on an unpredictable Earth.

The viruses keep coming, the climate is warming, and the Earth is rewilding. Our human family has no playbook to address the mayhem unfolding around us. If there is a change to reckon with, argues the... Read more

Chaste Mimosa

By: Terence McMullen

Narrated by: April Pressler

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Propositions about artificial intelligence are being debated seriously in the 21st Century, but machines, unlike plants, are not even living organisms. So, are plants sentient beings, like humans? Do they feel? Can they communicate? Plant sentience is a subject that has intrigued mankind over the ages - from the ancient Greeks, Plato and... Read more

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Jaime Green

Narrated by: Tracey Leigh, Jennifer Aquino, Ulka Simone Moha...

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and series editor Jaime Green. Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, renowned marine biologist and co-founder of the All We Can Save climate initiative, compiles the best science and nature writing of the... Read more

The Open-Air Life

By: Linda Åkeson Mcgurk

Narrated by: Laura Jennings

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A complete guide to Friluftsliv, the Nordic secret to unplugging and connecting more deeply with nature.

In The Open-Air Life, Swedish-American writer Linda McGurk introduces readers to a wide array of Nordic customs and practices that focus on slowing down and spending more and more of ones’ time outdoors. An outdoorsy cousin of hygge,... Read more

The Art of Shralpinism

By: Jeremy Jones

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Not a technical guide on snowboarding but, rather, a very personal approach to how to think about mountains, snow, and adventure, The Art of Shralpinism reflects the remarkable journey of snowboarding superstar Jeremy Jones. Drawing on the hundreds of journals he has kept over the years, Jones offers intriguing snapshots of time and place that... Read more

LVOE.

By: Atticus

Narrated by: Atticus

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time since he began writing, three-time New York Times bestselling author Atticus is inviting readers to take a look behind the mask as he embarks on a powerful journey inward in search of love, peace, and acceptance.
Even if you’ve never heard his name, you’ve probably met someone with his words tattooed on their skin or heard them... Read more