Environment & Nature audiobooks

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

Rethinking Readiness

By: Jeff Schlegelmilch

Narrated by: Brian Holden

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

As human society continues to develop, we have increased the risk of large-scale disasters. From health care to infrastructure to national security, systems designed to keep us safe have also heightened the potential for catastrophe. The constant pressure of climate change, geopolitical conflict, and our tendency to ignore what is hard to grasp... Read more

Autark leben als Selbstversorger

By: Wolfgang Sonnscheidt

Narrated by: Felix Amhoff

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Autark leben durch Selbstversorgung, Minimalismus und Zero Waste! In Zeiten des Klimawandels ist ein nachhaltiger Konsum und Umgang mit unseren Ressourcen wichtiger denn je. Ein genügsamer, minimalistischer Lebensstil kombiniert mit dem eigenen Anbau von Lebensmitteln und selbst gemachten Kosmetik- und Hygieneartikeln trägt dazu bei, Ihren... Read more

Learn from Looking

By: Charlie Szoradi

Narrated by: Charlie Szoradi

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn from Looking is about critical thinking and reaching a sustainable future more cost-effectively than ever imagined. The book's subtitle "How Observation Inspires Innovation" speaks to the core aspect of the content, given that the author, Charlie Szoradi, is an architect and inventor who has traveled extensively around the world over... Read more

The Unwinding - and Other Dreamings (Unabridged)

By: Jackie Morris

Narrated by: Bethany Porter

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is a companion to The Unwinding. It contains within images that tell stories, but it reads like a silent film. Each of the images is an invitation to dream. The tales of this silent edition are not pinned to the page by words. Each dreamer will find their own path, perhaps a new one each time they return. The illustrations are intended... Read more

The Cold Vanish

By: Jon Billman

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for readers of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, this "authentic and encyclopedic" book examines real-life cases of those who vanish in the wilderness without a trace (Roman Dial)—and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find them.
 These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace... Read more

Bears Photos and Facts for Everyone

By: Isis Gaillard

Narrated by: Judy Kriz

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the amazing world of Bears Photos and Facts for Everyone! The animal facts in nature book for you to be amazed by Bears.
You will find Bears in nature with pictures to include the many Bear species, size, breeding, eating habits, and interesting facts.
Bears Photos and Facts for Everyone is Book 1 of the Learn with Facts Series. This... Read more

Time to Stand Up

By: Thanissara

Narrated by: Essie Bartosik

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Time to Stand Up retells the story of the historical Buddha, one of the greatest sacred activists of all time, as a practical human being whose teachings of freedom from suffering are more relevant than ever in this time of global peril. Evolving onward from the patriarchal template of spiritual warriors and their quests, former nun Thanissara... Read more

Desert Notebooks

By: Ben Ehrenreich

Narrated by: David Bendena

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? National Magazine Award... Read more

The Day the World Ended

By: Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In late April 1902, Mount Pelée, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to... Read more

"Selber könnt ihr aussterben, wenn ihr so doof seid!" schrie Sophie Bee

By: Indra Tissier

Narrated by: Indra Tissier

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Klimawandel, Artensterben, Naturkatastrophen…, diese Begriffe sind aus unserem Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken. Dennoch scheint sich in Anbetracht der Dringlichkeit kaum etwas zu verändern. Da fragt man sich schon, wie das hier zu einer wunderbaren Zukunft führen soll. Hast auch du das Bedürfnis positiven Einfluss auf die Gesundheit des Planeten... Read more

Nature Obscura

By: Kelly Brenner

Narrated by: Erica Sullivan

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A distinctive, funny, inspiring, and intimate dive into urban nature.With wonder and a sense of humor, Nature Obscura author Kelly Brenner aims to help us rediscover our connection to the natural world that is just outside our front door—we just need to know where to look.Through explorations of a rich and varied urban landscape, Brenner reveals... Read more

Brilliant Green

By: Stefano Mancuso & Alessandra Viola

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary—just... Read more

The Future Earth

By: Eric Holthaus

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.The basics of climate science are easy. We know it is entirely human-caused. Which means its solutions will be similarly human-led. In The Future Earth, leading climate change... Read more

Apocalypse Never

By: Michael Shellenberger

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a National Bestseller! Climate change is real but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a... Read more

Unnatural Companions

By: Peter Christie

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

We love our pets. Dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and other species have become an essential part of more families than ever before—in North America today, pets outnumber people. Pet owners are drawn to their animal companions through an innate desire to connect with other species. But there is a dark side to our domestic connection with animal... Read more

The Incredible Journey of Plants

By: Stefano Mancuso

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understand that these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways plants move, we can see the incessant action and drive to spread life that has led plants to colonize every possible environment on earth. The history of this relentless expansion is unknown to most people, but we... Read more

In the Company of Crows and Ravens

By: Tony Angell & John M. Marzluff

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens influence human culture. Yet this influence is not unidirectional, say the authors of this fascinating book: people profoundly influence crow culture, ecology, and evolution as... Read more

42 Grad (gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Wolf Harlander

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kein Wasser. Nicht in den Leitungen. Nicht in den Flüssen. Nirgends ... Ganz Deutschland freut sich über den neuen Jahrtausendsommer. Dauersonnenschein sorgt für volle Freibäder. Einzig Hydrologe Julius Denner und IT-Spezialistin Elsa Forsberg warnen davor, dass die Hitze sich kurzfristig verschärfen wird - mit gravierenden Folgen. Niemand... Read more

The Nature Remedy

By: Faith Douglas

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Packed with beautiful images, recipes, remedies, meditations, fascinating ideas’. The Telegraph A beautiful, illustrated modern guide to nature for a new generation (including city-dwellers) and how it can impact our mental and physical wellbeing. Reconnect with... Read more

The Next Great Migration

By: Sonia Shah

Narrated by: Sonia Shah

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author

A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change.

The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated... Read more

Koi Karpfen halten

By: Mark Husemeyer

Narrated by: Henriette McCarthy

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Koi Karpfen halten: Grundlegende Informationen zur artgerechten Haltung KoisWillst Du wissen, woher der Koi abstammt?Kennst Du die verschieden Arten der Kois?Überlegst Du Dir, Deine eigenen Kois zu halten?
Lerne in diesem hilfreichen Ratgeber ... ... wo der Ursprung der Kois liegt ... welche Arten von Kois existieren ... was es bei der... Read more

Succulent Gardening

By: Jacob Wells

Narrated by: Matyas J.

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Eliminate the guesswork out of growing, designing and caring for long-lasting succulent plants with the definitive guide to these low-water beautiesHave you always been interested in gardening, but have no stomach for the backbreaking, thankless job of traditional gardening? Are you mindful of the environment and want to discover a stress-free... Read more

Internationalism or Extinction

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In his new book, Noam Chomsky writes cogently about the threats to planetary survival that are of growing alarm today. The prospect of human extinction emerged after World War II, the dawn of a new era scientists now term the Anthropocene. Chomsky uniquely traces the duality of existential threats from nuclear weapons and from climate... Read more