Environment & Nature audiobooks

The King of Nowhere

By: Matthew Sweetapple, Steve Punt & Elaine Sweetapple

Narrated by: Matthew Sweetapple & Steve Punt

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Created by writer, Steve Punt and musician, Matthew Sweetapple, The King of Nowhere is the second dramatised, musical story from Rockford's Rock Opera – creators of Lost on Infinity.Acclaim for The King of Nowhere"It was hard to see how the creators of Rockford's Rock Opera were going to match the sheer charm and originality of Lost on Infinity.... Read more

The Creation

By: E.O. Wilson

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Called "one of the greatest men alive" by the Times of London, E. O. Wilson proposes an historic partnership between scientists and religious leaders to preserve Earth's rapidly vanishing biodiversity. Read more

Our Native Bees

By: Paige Embry

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America's native bees—an endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies—is just as crucial. Our Native Bees is the result of Paige Embry's yearlong quest to learn more about these forgotten, yet fundamental, creatures.



Through interviews with farmers, gardeners,... Read more

Food from the Radical Center

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

America has never felt more divided. But in the midst of all the acrimony comes one of the most promising movements in our country's history. People of all races, faiths, and political persuasions are coming together to restore America's natural wealth: its ability to produce healthy foods.



In Food from the Radical Center, Gary Nabhan tells the... Read more

Poached

By: Rachel Love Nuwer

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Our insatiable demand for animals—for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur—is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening the continued existence of countless species. Illegal wildlife trade now ranks among the largest contraband industries in the world, yet compared to drug, arms, or human trafficking, the wildlife crisis has... Read more

The Marsh Builders

By: Sharon Levy

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Swamps and marshes once covered vast stretches of the North American landscape. The destruction of these habitats, long seen as wastelands that harbored deadly disease, accelerated in the twentieth century. Today, the majority of the original wetlands in the U.S. have vanished, transformed into farm fields or buried under city streets.



In The... Read more

A Plea for the Animals

By: Matthieu Ricard

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful and wide-ranging indictment of the treatment of animals by humans—and an eloquent plea for animal rights



Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu... Read more

Climate

By: Charles Eisenstein

Narrated by: Steve Wojtas

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A stirring case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction
 
With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our “fight” mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change... Read more

Crystals for Beginners

By: Karen Frazier

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn the holistic way to heal with Crystals for BeginnersBalancing mind, body, and soul often feels impossible, but it doesn’t have to be a struggle. Holistic healing methods with crystals can help harness energies and establish a positive and healthy lifestyle. In Crystals for Beginners, intuitive energy healer and author Karen Frazier walks... Read more

This Is the Way the World Ends

By: Jeff Nesbit

Narrated by: Jeff Nesbit

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"With This is the Way the World Ends Jeff Nesbit has delivered an enlightening - and alarming - explanation of the climate challenge as it exists today. Climate change is no far-off threat. It's impacting communities all over the world at this very moment, and we ignore the scientific reality at our own peril. The good news? As Nesbit... Read more

House of Rain

By: Craig Childs

Narrated by: Craig Childs

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A "beautifully written travelogue" that draws on the latest scholarly research as well as a lifetime of exploration to light on the extraordinary Anasazi culture of the American Southwest (Entertainment Weekly). 

The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century... Read more

PIG

By: Helen Browning & Tim Finney

Narrated by: Helen Browning

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

What is it about the humble pig that holds such a special place in our hearts?

In a frosty field on the longest night of the year, eight little piglets snuffle their first breaths, and jostle close to their mother to feed...

So begins the life of the farm animal that you think you already know. But think again...

This is the magical account of... Read more

Climate Church, Climate World

By: Jim Antal

Narrated by: Jim Denison

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Climate Church, Climate World argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced. Hunger, refugees, poverty, inequality, deadly viruses, war—climate change multiplies all forms of global social injustice. Environmental leader Reverend Jim Antal presents a compelling case that it’s time for the church to meet this... Read more

Unbridled Faith

By: Cara Whitney

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Explore the timeless wisdom of God's Word through this beautiful horse devotional.Horses nuzzle their way into our hearts and have a way of teaching us a lot about ourselves, about life, and even about God. Just ask horse enthusiast Cara Whitney, wife of comedian and actor Dan Whitney (aka Larry the Cable Guy).Through years spent working with... Read more

How to Raise Chickens for Eggs and Meat

By: HowExpert & Rebekah White

Narrated by: Cherie Vaughan

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Raising chickens is a fun adventure for a beginning or experienced chicken farmer to embark upon. In doing so, you'll increase your overall health and have a lot of fun doing so! However, it does require some basic research. This book will teach you how to: Select the best breed of chicken for your needs  Raise chickens from day-old... Read more

Vaquita

By: Brooke Bessesen

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2006, vaquita, a diminutive porpoise making its home in the Upper Gulf of California, inherited the dubious title of world’s most endangered marine mammal. Nicknamed “panda of the sea” for their small size and beguiling facial markings, vaquitas have been in decline for decades, dying by the hundreds in gillnets intended for commercially... Read more

Timefulness

By: Marcia Bjornerud

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth's atmosphere, is something we can easily grasp. But spans of hundreds... Read more

Through a Glass Brightly

By: David P. Barash

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In Through a Glass Brightly, noted scientist David P. Barash explores the process by which science has, throughout time, cut humanity "down to size," and how humanity has responded. A good paradigm is a tough thing to lose, especially when its replacement leaves us feeling more vulnerable and less special. And yet, as science has progressed, we... Read more

Ice Diaries (Booktrack Edition)

By: Jean McNeil

Narrated by: Bridget Wareham

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent — Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for... Read more

Aerial Warfare

By: Frank Ledwidge

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Aerial warfare has dominated western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping look at the history of air warfare, introducing the major battles, crises, and controversies where air power has taken center stage, and the changes in... Read more

Dinosaurs

By: David Norman

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Dinosaurs are fascinating creatures and their popularity seems never ending, fueled by films such as Jurassic Park and documentaries such as Walking with Dinosaurs. Yet dinosaurs (or more precisely non-avian dinosaurs) last trod the Earth 65 million years ago. All we know of them today are their fossilized bones, the tracks and traces that they... Read more

The Dark Between Stars

By: Atticus

Narrated by: Atticus

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild comes The Dark Between Stars, a new illustrated collection of heartfelt, whimsical, and romantic poems from Instagram poetry sensation, Atticus.

Atticus, has captured the hearts and minds of nearly 700k followers (including stars like Karlie Kloss, Emma... Read more

Forest Therapy

By: Sarah Ivens

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From a bestselling author, a guide to building a happier life by connecting with nature–without having to go too far the comfort of your own home. Perfect for fans of The Nature Fix and The Little Book of Hygge.

Research shows that spending time outside can improve your immune system, combat stress hormones, lower blood pressure, and boost... Read more

Burning Planet

By: Andrew C. Scott

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land, large-scale fires have played their part in shaping life on Earth.



Andrew C. Scott tells the whole... Read more