Environment & Nature audiobooks

The Lost Words

By: Robert Macfarlane

Narrated by: Edith Bowman, Guy Garvey, Cerys Matthews & Benj...

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist and author Jackie Morris, a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the magic of the natural world. In 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary — widely used in schools around the world — was published, a sharp-eyed reader... Read more

Deep into Yellowstone

By: Rick Lamplugh

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

After living and working for three winters in Yellowstone's Lamar Valley, Rick and his wife Mary long to go deeper into Yellowstone. Finally they trust Yellowstone's pull, leave the security of their Oregon life, and relocate to Gardiner, just outside the park's north gate. Their year of immersion begins.



Deep into Yellowstone takes you along as... Read more

101 Amazing Facts about Volcanos

By: Jack Goldstein

Narrated by: Charles King

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

How much of the earth’s surface do you think is volcanic in its origin? Have you any idea of the difference between a shield volcano and a stratovolcano? And do you know which ten eruptions were the largest in human history? Join Charles King as he talks us through all of these things and more and discover 101 amazing facts about Volcanos.... Read more

Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine

By: Beth Porter

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Ecosystems require balance to survive, and when that balance is compromised, as in the extinction of a resource or a species, disaster can fall onto the system as a whole. This vital management of resources can be seen in economic systems, as well. A healthy ecosystem is like a healthy economy, with competing mechanics inadvertently working in... Read more

The End of Animal Farming

By: Jacy Reese

Narrated by: Thom Rivera

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold yet realistic vision of how technology and social change are creating a food system in which we no longer use animals to produce meat, dairy, or eggs.

Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals brought widespread attention to the disturbing realities of factory farming. The End of Animal Farming... Read more

Lagom

By: Linnea Dunne

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Discover the Swedish ethos of balanced living with this little book of Lagom.

The Swedish concept of Lagom (pronounced "lah-gom") roughly translates to "not too little, not too much, just right." This charming book introduces readers to a new way of balanced living that promises happiness and sustainability in work and in life. Lagom provides... Read more

Rescuing Ladybugs

By: Jennifer Skiff

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Countless times throughout our lives, we're presented with a choice to help another soul. Rescuing Ladybugs highlights the true stories of remarkable people who didn't look away from seemingly impossible-to-change situations and instead worked to save animals. Prepare to be transported to Borneo to release orangutans, Brazil to protect jaguars,... Read more

Never Home Alone

By: Rob Dunn

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements

Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own... Read more

Rising

By: Elizabeth Rush

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant―and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways.In this highly original work of lyrical... Read more

The Truth Has Changed

By: Josh Fox

Narrated by: Josh Fox & Tom Parks

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Emmy Award–winning creator of GASLAND tells his intimate and damning, personal story of our world in crisis. With a foreword by Bill McKibben.The rules have changed.
The water has changed.
The climate has changed.
The truth has changed.
We must change.In The Truth Has Changed, Josh Fox turns the rapid-fire shocks that are remaking the very... Read more

The Star of the Neighborhood

By: Eliran Dayan

Narrated by: Simon Gillespie

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This story is based on true events of a serious and noble attempt made by the author to save the life of a cherished white and ginger cat who was injured.The author found a cat lying in his garden one day, wounded and meowing quietly. Together with his friend, they took the cat to a veterinarian.The veterinarian told them that the cat had... Read more

Up

By: Ben Fogle & Marina Fogle

Narrated by: Ben Fogle & Marina Fogle

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

My eyes lifted to the horizon and the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest. Everest, the mountain of my childhood dreams. A mountain that has haunted me my whole life. A mountain I have seen hundreds of times in photographs and films but never in real life. In April... Read more

When Humans Nearly Vanished

By: Donald R. Prothero

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Some 73,000 years ago, the Mount Toba supervolcano in today’s Indonesia erupted, releasing the energy of a million tons of explosives. So much ash and debris was injected into the stratosphere that it partially blocked the sun’s radiation and caused global temperatures to drop for a decade. In this book, Donald R. Prothero presents the... Read more

Liberación animal

By: Peter Singer

Narrated by: Arturo López

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora la Biblia de quienes luchan por los derechos de los animales, con prólogo de Yuval Harari . Este revolucionario libro, ahora disponible en formato audiolibro, inspiró, desde su publicación original en 1975, un movimiento mundial de defensa de los derechos de los animales que aspira a transformar nuestra actitud hacia ellos y... Read more

1001 Amazing Facts about Animals

By: Jack Goldstein

Narrated by: Jason Zenobia, Lawrence Keefe & Charles King

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that in medieval times dogs were known to have accompanied their masters into battle wearing suits of armour? Or that cows from different regions moo in different accents? Were you aware that the courtship dance of some seahorses can last eight hours? Or that an albatross flies much further in a lifetime than the Apollo astronauts... Read more

101 Amazing Facts about Lizards

By: Jack Goldstein

Narrated by: Charles King

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you know what amazing defence mechanism the horned toad lizard has? Can you guess which film was inspired by a trip to the Komodo islands to study lizards? What happens to those who kill a lizard, according to an ancient Aboriginal Australian belief? And which species of lizard is the fastest on the planet? Find out as Charles King talks us... Read more

Gatos

By: Robert Meadows

Narrated by: Ernesto Tesot

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

¿Te has preguntado alguna vez qué es lo que tu gato intenta decirte en su idioma?
Los gatos a veces pueden parecer impredecibles, y aparentemente no muy dispuestos a cooperar con nosotros. 
Es muy fácil pasar por alto el adiestramiento de los gatos y olvidarte de entrenar correctamente a tu nueva mascota desde el primer día que llega a casa. Todos... Read more

On the Nose

By: Hans Florine

Narrated by: Hans Florine

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Hans Florine is a big-wall climbing legend in his own time. He holds the speed record on the Nose route of El Capitan, a 3,000-foot granite cliff in Yosemite Valley that’s considered the Everest of the rock-climbing world. Ascending the Nose takes most climbers anywhere from twelve to ninety-six hours. Florine, along with climbing partner Alex... Read more

Dirt to Soil

By: Gabe Brown

Narrated by: Gabe Brown

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabe Brown didn’t set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm. Brown—in an effort to simply survive—began... Read more

The Unexpected Genius of Pigs

By: Matt Whyman

Narrated by: Matt Whyman

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

We often consider dogs to be our enduring sidekicks but the truth is domestic pigs have played a role in our lives for nearly as long. Pigs are highly social and smart. They like to play. They’re inventive, crafty and belligerent – and incredibly singleminded. Ultimately, we have far more in common with these... Read more

The Hunter's Way

By: Craig Raleigh

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Craig Raleigh puts hunting into modern perspective, combining higher sensibilities and his firsthand insight into the hunting world to gently illuminate a part of human nature that was, and still is, among the purest of human endeavors.” —Jim Shockey, award-winning writer and host of Jim Shockey’s Hunting Adventures and UnchartedA thoughtful... Read more

Storm Lake

By: Art Cullen

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"A reminder that even the smallest newspapers can hold the most powerful among us accountable."—The New York Times Book Review

Watch the documentary Storm Lake on PBS.

Iowa plays an outsize role in national politics. Iowa introduced Barack Obama and voted bigly for Donald Trump. But is it a bellwether for America, a harbinger of its future? Art... Read more

The Collapse of Western Civilization

By: Erik M. Conway & Naomi Oreskes

Narrated by: Lesa Lockford

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought, and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a... Read more

Plight of the Living Dead

By: Matt Simon

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature—and ourselves

Zombieism isn’t just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It’s real, and it’s happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and moose—and even humans.

In Plight of the Living Dead,... Read more