Environment & Nature audiobooks

Through a Window

By: Jane Goodall

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting a more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relatives.



On the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Gombe is a community where the principal residents are chimpanzees. Through Goodall's eyes we watch young... Read more

Geophysics

By: William Lowrie

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Very Short Introduction, William Lowrie describes the internal and external processes that affect the planet, as well as the principles and methods of geophysics used to investigate them. He explains how analysis of the seismic waves produced in earthquakes reveals the internal structure of the Earth. Geophysicists have established that... Read more

We're Doomed. Now What?

By: Roy Scranton

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The time we've been thrown into is one of alarming and bewildering change—the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies mass extinction, and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. Now what?



We're Doomed, Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series... Read more

Beekeeping: The Beekeepers Handbook for Learning All About Beekeeping Using the Best Strategies to Get You Started (Including How to Use the Top Bar Hive)

By: DSM Publishing

Narrated by: Alexa Crema

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Always wanted to know about beekeeping and how to become a beekeeper? This audiobook has everything you need to kick-start your very own beekeeping journey! Bees are a very important part of nature, as they help to keep the ecological balance alive. Without them, pollination wouldn't be possible, and flowers and plants wouldn't grow, and you can... Read more

Disaster!

By: John Withington

Narrated by: Roger Clark

Length: 17 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive catalog of the most devastating and deadly events—natural or man-made—in human history.



If you follow the news it can seem like injury, sickness, and death are now constant, inescapable occurrences that threaten us every second of every day. But such catastrophic events—as terrible and frightening as they are—have been happening... Read more

The Omega Principle

By: Paul Greenberg

Narrated by: Paul Greenberg

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

By the bestselling author of Four Fish and American Catch, an eye-opening investigation of the history, science, and business behind omega-3 fatty acids, the "miracle compound" whose story is intertwined with human health and the future of our planet

Omega-3 fatty acids have long been celebrated by doctors and dieticians as key to a healthy heart... Read more

The Poisoned City

By: Anna Clark

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - 2019

When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.

Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes.... Read more

A Handful of Happiness

By: Massimo Vacchetta

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A feel-good memoir of a man and his hedgehogMassimo Vacchetta, an Italian veterinarian specializing in large animals, is recently divorced and feeling heartbroken and depressed―until the day that someone brings an orphaned baby hedgehog into his clinic. As the tiny hedgehog cries and whimpers, Massimo immediately understands the extent of the... Read more

Tweet of the Day

By: BBC Natural History Radio

Narrated by: Bill Oddie, Brett Westwood, Chris Packham, Davi...

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete first series of Tweet of the Day, with introductions by Sir David Attenborough, Chris Packham, Kate Humble and many others.

First heard every weekday morning at 5.58am on BBC Radio 4, Tweet of the Day captured the imagination of early risers and bird lovers, proving so popular that it was named Radio Programme of the Year 2014. Each... Read more

The Promise of the Grand Canyon

By: John F. Ross

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”--The Wall Street Journal

"A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."--Nature

A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon—and waged a bitterly-contested... Read more

Save The Planet

By: Almir Narayamoga Surui, BS & Corine Sombrun

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Almir Narayamoga Suruí, the Amazonian tribal chieftain of the indigenous Suruí people, is a leader in the fight to save the rainforest not only for the preservation of his land and people, but for the Earth's and humanity's survival as well.



Joining forces with such high-tech corporations as Apple and Google Earth, Suruí has become a guardian of... Read more

Moleküle, die Geschichte schrieben - Abridged

By: Andreas S. Ziegler

Narrated by: Bernd Gnann, Frank Streichfuss & Kathrin Hildeb...

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Spannende Wissenschaft Anhand von 25 ausgewählten Wirkstoffen lässt dieses Hörbuch faszinierende Stern- und Schicksalsstunden der Arzneimittelforschung lebendig werden und führt vor Augen, auf welch abenteuerlichen Wegen viele Wirkstoffe vom Labor ans Krankenbett gelangten. Begeben Sie sich auf eine spannende Entdeckungsreise zu den Wurzeln der... Read more

La vida secreta de las vacas

By: Rosamund Young

Narrated by: Neus Sendra

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Con este libro, descubrimos que las vacas aman, juegan, desarrollan vínculos y amistades con otras vacas y con humanos para toda la vida. Las vacas son capaces amar, se divierten practicando todo tipo de juegos y establecen lazos de amistad y vínculos profundos que duran toda una vida. Tienen sus preferencias. Se enfurruñan y guardan rencor.... Read more

How to Live Plastic Free

By: Luca Bonaccorsi & Marine Conservation Society

Narrated by: Ben Addis

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Thank you for choosing this book - it shows that you care about the future of our planet.

Whether you decide to go plastic free for an hour, a day or a year, this book will equip you with little steps we can each take to make a big difference.

Let's turn the tide on plastic now - our oceans will thank you for it.


Choking. Starving. Poisoning.

This... Read more

Give a Sh*t

By: Ashlee Piper

Narrated by: Ashlee Piper

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"The time for stepping up and protecting our planet is now. And this book is an easy, enjoyable place to start." -- Moby

It's time to put your good intentions into action. It's time to give a shit -- about your health, your footprint, and your planet.

Give a Sh*t guides you through the transition to a kinder, healthier, more conscious, and... Read more

Wolf Nation

By: Brenda Peterson

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated them. Now, scientists, writers, and ordinary citizens are... Read more

The Climate Change Debate

By: the Speech Resource Company

Narrated by: the Speech Resource Company

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades climate scientists have been warning of the dangerous effects of the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. They have urged a variety of measures that might prevent some of those disasters they claim to foresee. Others deny the reality of human-caused climate change and believe that scientists’ warnings about the impact... Read more

Can Easter Island’s treasures withstand storms of climate change?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Spectacular giant statues evoke history and mystery on Easter Island, a place that has symbolized what humans can achieve and then destroy. Now everywhere you look on the island, home to about 6,000 residents, there are signs of coastal erosion and dangers of climate change. As part of our series Culture at Risk, Jeffrey Brown reports on efforts... Read more

Falcon

By: Helen Macdonald

Narrated by: Helen Macdonald

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Before best-selling author Helen Macdonald told the story of the goshawk in H Is for Hawk, she told the story of the falcon, in a cultural history of the masterful creature that can "cut the sky in two" with the "perfectly aerodynamic profile of a raindrop," as she so incisively puts it. In talon-sharp prose she explores the spell the falcon has... Read more

A Life Less Throwaway

By: Tara Button

Narrated by: Tara Button

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

A revolutionary guide to the art of mindful buying that will teach you how to resist cheaply made goods and make smart, fulfilling purchases that last a lifetime.

With the whole world trying to convince us to spend our way to happiness, we’ve been left cluttered, stressed, and unfulfilled. Tara Button, founder of BuyMeOnce, is at the forefront... Read more

What is Climate Change?

By: Gail Herman & Who HQ

Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet.

The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate change become a political issue? Are humans at fault? Is this just a natural development? While the vast majority of scientists who study the... Read more

Ces plantes qui écrivent l'histoire

By: Jacques Labescat

Narrated by: Jacques Labescat

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Autrefois, les « potions » à base de plantes étaient confectionnées par des sorcières que l'on condamnait au bûcher par ignorance ou par jalousie. Aujourd'hui, l'industrie pharmaceutique utilise dans un grand nombre de cas les mêmes principes actifs. À la lumière des connaissances actuelles, le docteur Labescat nous fait revivre la formule de... Read more

Eager

By: Ben Goldfarb

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and... Read more

The Secret Life of Cows

By: Rosamund Young

Narrated by: Rosamund Young

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"Within a day of receiving this book, I had consumed it... Absorbing, moving, and compulsively readable."—Lydia Davis

In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals

At her famous Kite's Nest Farm in Worcestershire,... Read more