Environment & Nature audiobooks

Tales of Two Planets

By: John Freeman

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, David DeSantos, Peter Ganim, Alma...

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live.

In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta,... Read more

Rebuilding Earth

By: Teresa Coady

Narrated by: Lisa Lindsley

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolutionary guide to designing humane, eco-conscious homes, buildings, and cities of the future.

It is estimated that the earth's population will expand to an unprecedented nine billion people over the next century. This explosion in population is predicted to place further stress on our environment, deplete our natural resources, and lead to... Read more

The Vanishing

By: Prerna Bindra

Narrated by: Deepti Singh

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Every year, our planet loses over 150 species of plants and animals, and India is very much in the midst of this mass ‘sixth extinction’. We are losing species in our backyard—where are the once ubiquitous sparrows, or the fireflies that lit up our nights? And in the forests, iconic species like the great Indian bustards are down to a hundred,... Read more

Two Trees Make a Forest

By: Jessica J. Lee

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature writing and memoir, rooted in the forests and flatlands of Taiwan



A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.



Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan... Read more

Horse Crazy

By: Sarah Maslin Nir

Narrated by: Sarah Maslin Nir

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF USA TODAY'S “20 SUMMER BOOKS YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS”

In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist explores why so many people—including herself—are obsessed with horses.

It may surprise you to learn that there are over seven million horses in... Read more

Survival

By: Samuel Layne & Sherry Wang, Illustrator

Narrated by: Nathaniel Ascher

Length: 20 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST: (1) 2020 (14TH) ANNUAL NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS; (2) 2021 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDSHow different might the history of our species have been had our hunter-gatherer forebears failed to migrate out of Africa in time to survive 70,000 years ago when threatened by extinction due to climate change brought on by the last ice... Read more

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

By: Melanie Joy, PhD

Narrated by: Emily Ellet & Heather Wynne

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

An Introduction to Carnism



Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows offers an absorbing look at what social psychologist Melanie Joy calls carnism, the belief system that conditions us to eat certain animals when we would never dream of eating others. Carnism causes extensive animal suffering and global injustice, and it drives us to act against... Read more

The Journeys of Trees

By: Zach St. George

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Forests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it has shifted. When new trees sprout in the same direction, the whole forest begins to migrate, sometimes at astonishing rates. Today, however, an array of obstacles—humans felling trees by the billions, invasive pests transported through global... Read more

On the Backs of Tortoises

By: Elizabeth Hennessy

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world.



The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the... Read more

Saving The Planet By Design

By: Ken Yeang

Narrated by: Dr Michael John Wells

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Can we ‘save the Planet’? For a resilient, durable and sustainable future for human society, we need to repurpose, reinvent, redesign, remake and recover our human-made world so that our built environment is benignly and seamlessly biointegrated with Nature to function synergistically with it. These are the multiple tasks that humanity must... Read more

History for Kids: The History of Saber-Toothed Tigers and Woolly Mammoths

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Daniel Houle

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine a feline with the spirit of a lion, the sneakiness of a puma, the terrifying walk of a black bear, and the strong arms of a gorilla. Sounds cool? Now add some huge dagger-like fangs… even cooler, right? This amazing creature was best known as the saber-toothed tiger; an animal so fearless, he could beat beasts even twice their size!As... Read more

Freshwater Aquariums For Dummies

By: Madelaine Francis Heleine

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Give your underwater pets the best aquatic life ever!



Aquarium fish are one of the most popular pets in America, with close to 150 million fish owned in nearly 13 million households. They seem like easy pets to care for, but there's more than meets the eye when it comes to keeping your freshwater friends healthy and happy!



In Freshwater Aquariums... Read more

The Nature of Plants

By: Craig N. Huegel

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Plants play a critical role in how we experience our environment. They create calming green spaces, provide oxygen for us to breathe, and nourish our senses. In The Nature of Plants, ecologist and nursery owner Craig Huegel demystifies the complex lives of plants and provides listeners with an extensive tour into their workings.



Beginning with... Read more

Podemos salvar el mundo antes de cenar

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

Narrated by: Roger Isasi-Isasmendi

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

El cambio climático es un problema real y podemos hacer algo para solucionarlo: cambiar lo que comemos a diario. La mayoría de los libros que abordan la crisis del medioambiente son densos, académicos y están repletos de estadísticas impersonales. Este no es uno más. Este audiolibro es accesible, inmediato y ofrece una solución clara que se... Read more

History for Kids: The History of Woolly Mammoths

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Daniel Houle

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 2012, on a chilly morning, a Russian kid named Yevgeny Zhenya and his dogs were walking to school, when an awful smell made them stop. The 11-year-old wanted to find out what smelled so bad, and with the help of his furry friends, he went to explore the land. They stumbled upon a giant pair of heels that were covered in an immense... Read more

The Will of Heaven

By: Debbie Ethell

Narrated by: Debbie Ethell

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Will of Heaven is the powerful true story of how one woman overcame a debilitating addiction−rising from the courtrooms of her past to the grass plains of Kenya as a conservation research scientist. It was there she could finally fulfill her lifelong dream of working with wild elephants.Debbie Ethell became obsessed by a group of elephants... Read more

Master Martial Arts

By: Randy Charach

Narrated by: Randy Charach

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

You can become a martial arts master with this self-hypnosis program. Randy will help you focus on what is required to be the master you are longing to be. Read more

The Amazon

By: Mark J. Plotkin

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The complex ecosystem of the Amazon covers an area about the size of the continental US. Approximately one of every four flowering plant species on earth resides in the Amazon. A single Amazonian river may contain more fish species than all the rivers in Europe combined. The rainforest, which contains approximately 390 billion trees, plays a... Read more

Battling Drought

By: Scientific American

Narrated by: Alex Boyles

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The extreme drought in the US Southwest has brought the issues of water use and management to the forefront of media attention. Historically, arguments over water rights have plagued this area since the days of John Wesley Powell, and disputes mark the relations between states, city-dwellers, farmers, and environmentalists to this day. Add to... Read more

Marine Biology

By: Philip V. Mladenov

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The oceans are our planet's most distinctive and imposing natural habitat. They cover seventy-one percent of its surface; support a remarkably diverse and exquisitely adapted array of life forms; and possess many of Earth's most significant, intriguing, and inaccessible ecosystems. In an era in which humans are significantly altering the global... Read more

Vivir sin plástico

By: Patricia Reina Toresano & Fernando Gómez Soria

Narrated by: Patricia Reina Toresano, Fernando Gómez Soria &...

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Mira a tu alrededor. Seguramente estás rodeado de plástico. Este material es omnipresente en nuestra vida porque tiene muchas ventajas. Por un lado, es moldeable y se adapta a cualquier formato y, por otro, es muy resistente y barato. Fantástico, ¿verdad? Pues no tanto. Estas cualidades han hecho que su uso se haya llevado al extremo, lo que ha... Read more

Play Better Golf

By: Randy Charach

Narrated by: Randy Charach

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

How is your golf game? Would you like to improve and get your handicap down? Randy can help you to achieve this in the "Play Better Golf" self-hypnosis program. Read more

Disposable City

By: Mario Alejandro Ariza

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.
Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today.... Read more

The Sensitives

By: Oliver Broudy

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling exploration of the mysteries of environmental toxicity and the community of “sensitives”—people with powerful, puzzling symptoms resulting from exposure to chemicals, fragrances, and cell phone signals, that have no effect on “normals.”

They call themselves “sensitives.” Over fifty million Americans endure a mysterious environmental... Read more