Environment & Nature audiobooks

Hothouse Earth

By: Bill McGuire

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Providing a post-COP26 perspective on the climate emergency, Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide acknowledges that it is now practically impossible to keep this side of the 1.5°C dangerous climate-change guardrail. The upshot is that we can no longer dodge the arrival of a disastrous, all-pervasive climate breakdown that will come as a hammer... Read more

KF Mezzi 7 - Landsmót

By: Daniel Zimakoff

Narrated by: Árni Beinteinn Árnason

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

KF Mezzi er á leið á stærsta mót sitt til þessa með nýja þjálfaranum, Auði. Nú reynir svo sannarlega á liðsheildina og keppnisandann. En ýmislegt getur gerst á fótboltamótum, svo sem alvarleg meiðsli, slest getur upp á vinskapinn og jafnvel stofnað til nýs vinskapar. Það sem er mest spennandi eru þó útsendararnir, sem eru þarna sérstaklega til... Read more

Frozen in Time

By: Rhys Charles

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A vibrant and richly detailed guide to fossils for readers with a passion for the natural world and those that inhabited it long ago.

This is a book for those that want to learn to scan the beach for fossils, who love the simple pleasure of getting outside or those who want to develop their relationship with the world around them. From the... Read more

The Time to Act Is Now

By: Carola Rakete & Anne Weiss

Narrated by: Marysa Abbas

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

»We are at a turning point in human history. To stop climate breakdown and extinction,environmental movements need to be actively anti-racist and join struggles for social justice.«Carola RacketeIn 2019, Carola Rackete became publicly known for docking the sea rescue vessel »Sea-Watch 3« in Italy and thereby challenging a nationaldecree that... Read more

Nature Health Healing:

By: Mike B. Blake

Narrated by: Mike Blake

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Comprises the 5 Poems for the Series.
1. I Like the Rain: Sometimes..
2. To Climb Trees
3. In Days Gone By: // Newbury //
4. ASMR: Thought Pringles
5. Back To the Woods :
All the poems cover nature or healing as their main themes.
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Here and There

By: Roderick MacDonald

Narrated by: Roderick MacDonald

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this song-like collection of 50 short poems inspired by rural Prince Edward Island, Canada, Roderick MacDonald elevates the commonplace and simple in entertaining and thoughtful verse.Through his poetry MacDonald invites the listener to accompany him on a gentle walk through the changing seasons on his beloved island. His words evoke the... Read more

The Little Ice Age

By: Brian Fagan

Narrated by: Michael Langan

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today’s global warming.Only in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times.... Read more

Good Grief

By: E.B. Bartels

Narrated by: Eileen Stevens

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals, and how to grieve them once they’ve passed.E.B. Bartels has had a lot of pets—dogs, birds, fish, tortoises. As varied a bunch as they are, they’ve taught her one universal truth: to own a pet is to love a pet,... Read more

At Home on an Unruly Planet

By: Madeline Ostrander

Narrated by: Madeline Ostrander

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"Madeline Ostrander narrates in tones of warning, anger, and sadness as she ticks off the environmental crises facing the world. She adds something else, too: sentiment."- AudioFile

This program is read by the author.

From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of... Read more

Regenesis

By: George Monbiot

Narrated by: George Monbiot

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism | A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller | Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation

“George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today.” —Greta Thunberg

For the first time in millennia, we have the opportunity to transform not... Read more

Going It Alone

By: Tim Hauserman

Narrated by: Walter Brown

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Join author Tim Hauserman on his solo journeys through the Sierra Nevada and the forests of Minnesota. Hauserman shares his experiences hiking by himself through some of the most spectacular landscapes in the United States. Along the way, he confronts his conflicting desires to be alone in the wilderness, then facing profound loneliness and fear... Read more

How Fast Did T. rex Run?

By: David Hone

Narrated by: Tom Lawrence

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Tom Lawrence describes the revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of dinosaursIn just the past twenty years, we have learned more about dinosaurs than we did in the previous two centuries. This book describes the extraordinary advances in palaeontology that are beginning to solve many of the... Read more

To Govern the Globe

By: Alfred W. McCoy

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050—has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders.During the long centuries of Iberian and British... Read more

Weltuntergang fällt aus - Warum die Wende der Klimakrise viel einfacher ist, als die meisten denken, und was jetzt zu tun ist (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung)

By: Jan Hegenberg

Narrated by: Jan Hegenberg

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Mal angenommen es war nicht früher alles besser - sondern wird es erst in der Zukunft: Wie würde die ideale Welt 2040 in Bezug auf fossile Brennstoffe, Mobilität und Ernährung aussehen? Und wäre sie auch praktisch umsetzbar? Jan Hegenberg zeigt in seinem Buch faktenbasiert, aber trotzdem mit einer ordentlichen Prise Humor, wie wir die... Read more

Tangled Yet Coiled

By: Tom Burgess

Narrated by: Ash Caton

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Tangled Yet Coiled is a collection of 22 poems exploring the climate emergency, the unifying potential of nature, and experiences of wilderness that vault the ego, that captivate and sustain. It is written with the hope of turning powerlessness into small acts of courage and championing the natural beauty found in humans and all living things. Read more

Minimalism, Clean Your Mess

By: Clifford Page

Narrated by: Pia Nebrada & Richard Soto

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Is your house strewn with useless clutter you thought would make you happy, but never did? Do you need to let go of meaningless possessions and money-wasting habits, but you just don't know how to start? Then you need to keep reading...
Recent scientific studies have shown that a messy environment can be bad for our mental health. Many don't... Read more

Гончие Бафута

By: Джеральд Даррелл

Narrated by: Владимир Рыбальченко

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Имя Джеральда Даррелла известно во всем мире. Писатель, натуралист, путешественник, создатель уникального зоопарка на острове Джерси, на базе которого организован Фонд сохранения диких животных. Даррелл написал более тридцати книг, и почти все они переведены на многие языки, им снято несколько десятков фильмов. Read more

KF Mezzi 6 - Kári kvaddur

By: Daniel Zimakoff

Narrated by: Árni Beinteinn Árnason

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Fótbolti snýst hvorki um líf né dauða – það er miklu mikilvægara!KF Mezzi keppir til að vinna í deildinni, svo þau geti tekið þátt í Íslandsmeistaramótinu.Það þýðir að þeir þurfa að sigra gamla félagið hans Tómasar, KFK! En þjálfari Mezzi, Kári, er kannski að fara í nám til Bandaríkjanna. Ef hann hættir, hver á þá að þjálfa KF Mezzi? Og geta þau... Read more

Más allá de las estrellas

By: Álex Riveiro

Narrated by: Íñigo Montero

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Hay vida en otros lugares del Sistema Solar?
¿Cuántas civilizaciones pueden existir en la galaxia?
¿Nos conoceremos algún día? Desde pequeños, nos fascinan las estrellas y los planetas. En seguida nos preguntamos si en su superficie podría haber criaturas, como tú y como yo, preguntándose si en otros lugares de la galaxia habrá seres como... Read more

Bucuria ordinii

By: Marie Kondo

Narrated by: Veronica Soare

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Marie Kondo ne învață să facem din organizarea locuinței o artă. Sunt prezentate soluții pentru toate încăperile unei case, precum și pentru o gamă largă de obiecte din diferite categorii, inclusiv haine, încălțăminte, fotografii, cărți, tacâmuri, obiecte de toaletă și genți. Ilustrațiile din cuprinsul cărții arată cum se împăturesc hainele... Read more

Taking Stock

By: Roger Morgan-Grenville

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Since highland cattle ransacked his grandmother's vegetable patch when he was six, Roger Morgan-Grenville has been fascinated by cows.

So at the age of 61, with no farming experience, he signed on as a part- time labourer on a beef cattle farm to tell their side of the story. The result is this lyrical and evocative book.

For 10,000 years, cow and... Read more

Science for a Green New Deal

By: Eric A. Davidson

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Since it was first proposed in the US House of Representatives, the Green New Deal has been hotly debated. The intent was not simply to fight climate change or address a specific environmental concern, but rather to tackle how climate change and other environmental challenges affect the economy, the vulnerable, and social justice—and vice... Read more

Thin Places

By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Narrated by: Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town—although for her family, and many others, there was no right side. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one year, they were... Read more

Ginseng Diggers

By: Luke Manget

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The harvesting of wild American ginseng (panax quinquefolium), the gnarled, aromatic herb known for its therapeutic and healing properties, is deeply established in North America and has played an especially vital role in the southern and central Appalachian Mountains. Traded through a trans-Pacific network that connected the region to East... Read more