Environment & Nature audiobooks

Hacking Planet Earth

By: Thomas M. Kostigen

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An exploration of the cutting-edge technology that will enable us to confront the realities of climate change.

For decades scientists and environmentalists have sounded the alarm about the effects of global warming. We are now past the tipping point. As floods, storms, and extreme temperatures become our daily reality, "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"... Read more

The Death of Nature

By: Carolyn Merchant

Narrated by: Juliet Jones

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women. Read more

Half Broke

By: Ginger Gaffney

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

At the start of this remarkable story of recovery, healing, and redemption, Ginger Gaffney answers a call to help retrain the troubled horses at an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico, a facility run entirely by the prisoners. The horses are scavenging through the dumpsters, kicking and running down the residents when they bring the trash out... Read more

Our House Is on Fire

By: Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Malena Ernman ...

Narrated by: Maya Lindh

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"A must-read ecological message of hope . . . Everyone with an interest in the future of this planet should read this book." --David Mitchell, The Guardian

When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents Malena and Svante, and her little sister Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and... Read more

Dreaming with Dandelion

By: Heather Sanderson

Narrated by: Heather Sanderson

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Dreaming with Dandelion takes you on a journey into the world of the plants.Through introducing concepts of active imagination, shamanic practices, and how to connect and dream with Plant Spirits (and what that means), this short book provides insight, encouragement, and practical application for you to discover or strengthen your relationship... Read more

Umweltschutz [Wieso? Weshalb? Warum? PROFIWISSEN Folge 26] - Abridged

By: Dela Kienle & Jochen Windecker

Narrated by: Katja Danowski & Julia Nachtmann

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mitten im Frühling gibt es schwere Gewitter und die Wissensprofis Finn, Jette, Lilli und Ben fragen sich: Sind das Zeichen für den Klimawandel? Auf einer Umweltschutz-Demonstration lernen die vier Kinder Alex kennen. Als sie erfahren, dass nicht nur Mensch und Erde, sondern auch viele Tierarten bedroht sind, ist klar: Sie müssen etwas... Read more

Courting the Wild Twin

By: Martin Shaw

Narrated by: Martin Shaw

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Master mythologist Martin Shaw uses timeless story-wisdom to examine our broken relationship with the world There is an old legend that says we each have a wild, curious twin that was thrown out the window the night we were born, taking much of our vitality with them. If there was something we were meant to do with our few, brief years on... Read more

Cache Lake Country

By: John J. Rowlands

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic chronicle of life and self-reliance in the great Northern Forest, now available in audio



"Cache Lake Country is a gem for many reasons—a simple narrative, the ways in which it conveys the work-a-day joys and exertions of life in the wilderness, the woodscraft techniques it illustrates, and the slow and pleasurable way in which the... Read more

Dinosaurs Rediscovered

By: Michael J. Benton

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in prehistoric bones that no one could have previously predicted. We can now work out the color of dinosaurs, the force of their bite, their top speeds, and even how they cared for their... Read more

Simplify Your Life

By: Mary Conroy

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Minimalism is for rich people who live in big, empty, white homes, right? Wrong.Minimalism isn't just about displaying your food staples in glass jars or having chic Scandi furniture. It can be a beautiful, enriching, and life-transforming practice that, at its core, is all about re-establishing what holds value in your life and letting go of... Read more

Earth Spirit Dreaming

By: Elizabeth E. Meacham

Narrated by: Robin Douglas

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide to co-creating a healing vision for humanity and the Earth through nature-connected shamanic rituals

• Explains the Earth Spirit Dreaming process for rebirthing inherent shamanic abilities with dozens of practices in three categories: Earth-connecting practices, Spirit-connecting practices, and Dream-connecting practices

• Provides... Read more

Marigolds, Myrtle and Moles

By: Alan Titchmarsh

Narrated by: Alan Titchmarsh

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect listen for the green-fingered - hilarious and touching poems on a gardening theme written and introduced by the nation's favourite gardener and presenter of ITV's Love Your Garden, Channel 5's Secrets of the National Trust and with his own show on Classic FM.

From touching poems on the peony, the snowdrop and the sweet pea to... Read more

Last Chance to See: The original BBC Radio series

By: BBC Radio

Narrated by: Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine & Peter Jones

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine travel the world in pursuit of species on the brink of extinction

In 1985, The Observer magazine sent Douglas Adams to Madagascar to look for the exotic and potentially extinct aye-aye lemur. There he met zoologist Mark Carwardine, and together they made a radio pilot about their travels, In Search of the... Read more

Liquid Gold

By: Roger Morgan-Grenville

Narrated by: Simon Mattacks

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

After a chance meeting in the pub, Roger Morgan-Grenville and his friend Duncan decide to take up beekeeping. Their enthusiasm matched only by their ignorance, they are pitched into an arcane world of unexpected challenges.Coping with many setbacks along the way, they manage to create a colony of beehives, finishing two years later with more... Read more

The World-Ending Fire

By: Wendell Berry

Narrated by: Nick Offerman

Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities.The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the... Read more

The Archipelago of Hope

By: Gleb Raygorodetsky

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

One cannot turn on the news today without a report on an extreme-weather event or the latest update on Antarctica. But while our politicians argue, the truth is that climate change is already here. Nobody knows this better than Indigenous peoples who, having developed an intimate relationship with ecosystems over generations, have observed these... Read more

The Unsettling of America

By: Wendell Berry

Narrated by: Nick Offerman

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. Init, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takesfarming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from... Read more

Land of Wondrous Cold

By: Gillen D'Arcy Wood

Narrated by: Nigel Anthony

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this audiobook, Nigel Anthony narrates the gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughsAntarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal... Read more

Salmon

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: Mark Kurlansky

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to detail to chronicle the harrowing yet awe-inspiring life... Read more

The Story of More

By: Hope Jahren

Narrated by: Hope Jahren

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it. • “Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet?" —Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction

"The voice that science has been waiting for.” —Nature

Hope Jahren... Read more

The Easternmost House

By: Juliet Blaxland

Narrated by: Juliet Blaxland

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Within the next three years, Juliet Blaxland's home will be demolished, and the land where it now stands will crumble into the North Sea. In her numbered days living in the Easternmost House, Juliet fights to maintain the rural ways she grew up with, re-connecting with the beauty, usefulness and erratic terror of the natural world. The... Read more

Animal Kind

By: Emma Lock

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The Beauty of Animal Companionship



For hundreds of years, humans and animals have had special bonds with each other. We've lived side-by-side through thick and thin—these relationships are not just about raising pets and farm animals. Our animal companions offer inspiration, friendship, health, and real-life opportunities for recovery that we... Read more

The Time Machine

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Nigel Gore

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"I told you so, you damned fools." H G Wells
The father of Science Fiction predicted the events of the next century with almost 100% accuracy. In The Time Machine he depicted a dying world destroyed by humanity long before anyone realized climate change was becoming an urgent issue, making the famous story even more chillingly relevant today.
... Read more

Beekeeping

By: Jason Howard

Narrated by: Peter Prova

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover everything you need to know about raising healthy bees and the practice of modern apiculture with this comprehensive guide to beekeeping for beginnersIf you've ever wondered if you could become a beekeeper and raise your own bee colony for fun and profit, have access to a fresh supply of delicious honey while saving the planet at the... Read more