Environment & Nature audiobooks

Black Gold

By: Jeremy Paxman

Narrated by: Jeremy Paxman

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster ‘A rich social history … Paxman’s book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously’ DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES ‘Vividly told … Paxman’s fine narrative powers are at their best’ THE TIMES ... Read more

Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid

By: Thor Hanson

Narrated by: Stacy Carolan

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A beloved natural historian explores how climate change is driving evolution  

In Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid, biologist Thor Hanson tells the remarkable story of how plants and animals are responding to climate change: adjusting, evolving, and sometimes dying out. Anole lizards have grown larger toe pads, to grip more tightly... Read more

Guardians of the Trees

By: Kinari Webb, M.D.

Narrated by: Kinari Webb, M.D. & Suehyla El-Attar

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

A "magnificent, empowering" (Bill McKibben) memoir about a woman spearheading a global initiative to heal the world’s rainforests and the communities who depend on them

When Kinari Webb first traveled to Indonesian Borneo at 21 to study orangutans, she was both awestruck by the beauty of... Read more

Firestorm

By: Greg Mullins

Narrated by: Hazem Shammas

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg Mullins followed his father into fighting bushfires - it was in the blood. He fought major fires around Sydney and the Blue Mountains for decades, and studied bushfires in Europe, Canada and the US. He risked his life in the 1994 Sydney fires and, later, during our catastrophic Black Summer of 2019-20. As a career firefighter, he worked his... Read more

Castaway Mountain

By: Saumya Roy

Narrated by: Jeed Saddy

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

All of Mumbai's possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountains are covered in a faint smog from trash fires. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knock offs, fast food, and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and rag-pickers came to live at... Read more

Signs and Wonders

By: Delia Falconer

Narrated by: Delia Falconer

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2022 Nib Literary Awards.

Chosen as a 2021 ‘Book of the Year’ in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Book Review.

The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our... Read more

Silent Earth

By: Dave Goulson

Narrated by: Dave Goulson

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking environmental classic Silent Spring, an award-winning entomologist and conservationist explains the importance of insects to our survival, and offers a clarion call to avoid a looming ecological disaster of our own making.
Drawing on thirty years of research, Goulson has written an accessible,... Read more

Earth's Wild Music

By: Kathleen Dean Moore

Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

At once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore's distinguished career as a tireless advocate for environmental activism in the face of climate change.

In this meditation on the music of the natural world, Moore celebrates the call of loons, howl of wolves, bellow of whales, laughter of... Read more

¿Y ahora yo qué hago?

By: Andreu Escrivà

Narrated by: Álvaro Blazquez

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

De acuerdo, el cambio climático es el mayor reto al que nos enfrentamos en el siglo XXI. Lo hemos oído mil veces, ¿pero qué quiere decir eso? ¿Cómo tengo que actuar en medio de mensajes apocalípticos y culpabilizadores? ¿Por qué no hago nada cuando sé que debería hacerlo? ¿Sirve de algo que yo cambie si no cambia el sistema económico? ¿Qué tiene... Read more

Cómo evitar un desastre climático

By: Bill Gates

Narrated by: Roberto Medina

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Las soluciones que ya tenemos y los avances que aún necesitamos

En este libro urgente y necesario Bill Gates propone un plan amplio, práctico —y comprensible— para conseguir que el mundo llegue a cero emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero para así evitar una catástrofe climática.
 
Bill Gates ha pasado una década investigando las causas y... Read more

A dictionary of green finance - Abridged

By: European Investment Bank

Narrated by: Matt Rees

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What is green? Apart from a colour, obviously. Green is the most important word in the world, because it's at the heart of the battle to finance climate action. We need to understand what's really good for the environment and what's really going to slow climate change… so that we can find the money to pay for it. If it's truly green, then it's... Read more

Saving Us

By: Katharine Hayhoe

Narrated by: Katharine Hayhoe

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” (The New York Times).

Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators... Read more

Regeneration

By: Paul Hawken

Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Bahni Turpin, Lauren Baldwin, Geof...

Length: 18 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown

Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and... Read more

Pump

By: Bill Schutt

Narrated by: LJ Gasner

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fascinating . . . Surprising entertainment, combining deep learning with dad jokes . . . [Schutt] is a natural teacher with an easy way with metaphor.”—The Wall Street JournalIn this lively, unexpected look at the hearts of animals—from fish to bats to humans—American Museum of Natural History zoologist Bill Schutt tells an incredible story... Read more

Climate Chaos

By: Brian Fagan & Nadia Durrani

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive.  Man-made climate change may have began in the last two hundred years, but humankind has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty: once-mighty civilizations... Read more

The Orangutans of Semenggoh, Mount Santubong, the Sun Bears of Matang and the Rain in Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo

By: Pearl Howie

Narrated by: Pearl Howie

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From No. 1 best selling Self-Help, Counselling and Travel author Pearl Howie

A dream come true.

But more than that.

A dream I had given up on, hidden from myself, brought to light, and then realised. And yet, the first time I saw orangutans in Semenggoh, semi-wild, it was not the experience I had hoped for.

Sarawak is so much more than... Read more

Lives of Weeds

By: John Cardina

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came about, why they are both inevitable and essential, and how their ecological success is ensured by determined efforts to eradicate them. Linking botany,... Read more

Water

By: Giulio Boccaletti

Narrated by: Giulio Boccaletti

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Boccaletti, of The Nature Conservancy, “tackles the most important story of our time: our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity” (Kelly McEvers, NPR Host).
 
Writing with authority and brio,... Read more

Jungle

By: Patrick Roberts

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the age of dinosaurs to the first human cities, a groundbreaking new history of the planet that tropical forests made. 

To many of us, tropical forests are the domain of movies and novels. These dense, primordial wildernesses are beautiful to picture, but irrelevant to our lives.  

Jungle tells a different story. Archaeologist Patrick Roberts... Read more

Lessons from Plants

By: Beronda L. Montgomery

Narrated by: York Whitaker

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They nourish other living organisms and supply psychological benefits to humans as well, improving our moods and beautifying the landscape around us. But plants don’t just passively provide. They also take action. Beronda L.... Read more

IMPORTANCE OF GOING ECO-FRIENDLY

By: Parshwika Bhandari

Narrated by: Parshwika Bhandari

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on my own experience and knowledge, I am sharing the importance of going Eco friendly, and why it is important, and what we could do as normal human beings in our day to day routine to protect our environment and nature, hopefully you find it useful and enjoyful, and together we can protect and safe our environment Read more

Mud Ajar

By: Hiram Larew

Narrated by: T. A. Niles

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In its very speak of twigs, with all of its flies over pies, and for its every rake on a shoulder…here’s a rucksack of poem adventures!
Indeed, in its wonder of poems — many that hike across the page — Mud Ajar is wise beyond its years. Even more, the book is an unaccustomed lark, a luster. Yes surely, a bluebird of handsome.
What Hiram Larew... Read more

The Guide to Ignacio Springs and Guerrero Negro, Baja, Mexico (the Bus, the Rest Stop, the Military Checkpoint, the Orchard Hotel, the Kayak, the Yurt, the Inn and the Grey Whales) from Pearl Escapes 2017

By: Pearl Howie

Narrated by: Pearl Howie

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From No. 1 best selling Self-Help, Counselling and Travel author Pearl Howie – the audiobook of her mini-guide to visiting grey whales in Mexico.

I used to get extremely burnt out and couldn’t even handle booking a hotel or flight when I did have time off. I thought “Wouldn’t it be awesome if someone would write a guide that gave you one perfect... Read more

The Waters Between Us

By: Michael J. Tougias

Narrated by: Michael J. Tougias

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming and delightful reminiscence of growing up loving the woods, waters, fields, and fauna of Massachusetts by Michael Tougias, New York Times bestselling author of The Finest Hours, Overboard!, and Fatal Forecast.Untamed. Unsupervised. Uncontrolled.Boyhood in the 1960s and ’70s was a time for exploration and mischief. Author Michael... Read more