Environment & Nature audiobooks

Fisherman's Blues

By: Anna Badkhen

Narrated by: Anna Badkhen

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE

An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed.

The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere.

For... Read more

As climate change parches Somalia, frequent drought comes with conflict

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Desert sand is slowly taking over Somalia. Just six years after the last major drought emergency, the rains have failed again -- a devastating trend in a country where around 80 percent of people make their living on the land. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson and videographer Alessandro Pavone report on how climate change is threatening a way... Read more

Trooper

By: Forrest Bryant Johnson

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Whenever middle-aged desert tour guide Forrest Bryant Johnson went out on his daily walks into the Mojave, all was usually peaceful and serene. But one beautiful summer day in 1987, Forrest heard a cry of distress. Following the cries, he came upon a small bobcat kitten, injured, orphaned, and desperately in need of help. So Forrest took his new... Read more

The race to develop coffee that can survive climate change

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

What has driven tens of thousands of Salvadorans to leave home, many for the U.S.? El Salvador's coffee beans suffered a devastating disease five years ago, and now face an even greater existential threat: climate change. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on how researchers there are trying to develop a plant that can adapt to... Read more

The Old Man and the Sand Eel

By: Will Millard

Narrated by: Will Millard

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Old Man and the Sand Eel, written and read by Will Millard.

Growing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Millard never felt more at home than when he was out with his granddad on the riverbank whiling away the day catching fish. As he grew older his competitive urge to catch more and bigger fish led... Read more

The Abundance of Less

By: Andy Couturier

Narrated by: Adam Riley

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspiring stories of 10 urbanites who decided to ‘the simple life’ in the rural mountains of Japan—for anyone interested in sustainable living, Japanese culture, and Eastern spirituality.
 
“Subversive in the best possible way.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author

The Abundance of Less captures the texture of sustainable lives well... Read more

Planet Drama

By: Science News

Narrated by: Ashley Klanac

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

  From asteroids and gamma-ray bursts to volcanoes, landslides and tornadoes, there are a lot of disasters with the potential to wipe out life on Earth. The stories that follow from Science News and Science News for Students explore the natural disasters that have killed flora and fauna, including humans, throughout history on the planet. Listen... Read more

The Last Wilderness

By: Neil Ansell

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Neil Ansell's THE LAST WILDERNESS is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has spent his lifetime taking solitary ventures into the wild. For any readers of the author's previous book, DEEP COUNTRY, Robert Macfarlane's THE OLD WAYS or William Atkins THE MOOR.

'A gem of a book, an extraordinary tale. Ansell's rich prose will... Read more

North on the Wing

By: Bruce M. Beehler

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo three-month trek to track songbird migration and the northward progress of spring through America. Traveling via car, canoe, bike, and on foot, Beehler followed woodland warblers and other neotropical songbird species from the southern border of Texas, where the birds first... Read more

The Seabird's Cry

By: Adam Nicolson

Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sounding appropriately David Attenborough-esque, Dugald Bruce-Lockhart narrates this in-depth look at the lives of 10 species of seabirds." — AudioFile Magazine

Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."

A global tragedy is... Read more

Du entscheidest! - Abridged

By: Christin Krischke

Narrated by: Christin Krischke

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Nur wer die Vergangenheit kennt, hat eine Zukunft" wird der preußische Universalgelehrte Wilhelm von Humboldt gerne in der Fürstlichen Hofreitschule in Bückeburg zitiert. Ob in den 4000 Jahren, die auf der Welt bereits ohne "Trabverstärkungen" und "Vorwärts-Abwärts" geritten und dabei wirklich so viel falsch gemacht wurde, wie der moderne... Read more

Extreme Cities

By: Ashley Dawson

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion's share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea... Read more

The Spinning Magnet

By: Alanna Mitchell

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The mystery of Earth's invisible, life-supporting power

Alanna Mitchell's globe-trotting history of the science of electromagnetism and the Earth's magnetic field--right up to the latest indications that the North and South Poles may soon reverse, with apocalyptic results--will soon change the way you think about our planet.

Award-winning... Read more

Bear Attacks

By: Stephen Herrero

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Of the animals in North America, none commands such dread, awe, and interest as the bear. Creatures that fear little, bears compete for survival with the only other animals that can threaten their existence: Humans.



Bear Attacks is a thorough and unflinching study of attacks made on humans. This is the sometimes horrific, yet always instructive,... Read more

The Milk Lady of Bangalore

By: Shoba Narayan

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

When Shoba Narayan, a writer and cookbook author who had lived for years in Manhattan, moves back to Bangalore with her family, she befriends the milk lady, from whom she buys fresh milk every day. These two women from very different backgrounds bond over not only cows, considered holy in India, but also family, food, and life. After Narayan... Read more

Flat Broke with Two Goats

By: Jennifer McGaha

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and naming his doeling Merlene. She didn't expect to be buying organic yogurt for her chickens. She never thought she would be pulling camouflage carpet off her ceiling or rescuing opossums from her barn and calling it "date night." Most importantly,... Read more

The Wizard and the Prophet

By: Charles C. Mann

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493—an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.... Read more

The Intelligence and Consciousness of Octopuses

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Octopuses are highly intelligent, show their cleverness in myriad ways, and love to play. Montgomery describes befriending several of them over a number of years and shares how they can make remarkable connections with individual people. This is a most fascinating dialogue about the meeting of two very different minds, human and octopus. Read more

Very, Very, Very Dreadful

By: Albert Marrin

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic--and its chilling and timely resemblance to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak.

In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of... Read more

A Taste for the Beautiful

By: Michael J. Ryan

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Darwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant colors of butterflies and fishes to the songs of birds and frogs. He argued that animals have "a taste for the beautiful" that drives their potential mates to evolve features that make them more sexually attractive and... Read more

The White Cascade

By: Gary Krist

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From renowned writer and travel journalist Gary Krist comes the never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in U.S. history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche.

In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking... Read more

Clean Protein

By: Kathy Freston & Bruce Friedrich

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Join the Clean Protein revolution and lose weight, feel stronger, and live longer.

Food and wellness experts Kathy Freston and Bruce Friedrich have spent years researching the future of protein. They've talked to the food pioneers and the nutrition scientists, and now they've distilled what they've learned into a strength-building plan poised... Read more

Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition

By: Marc Reisner

Narrated by: Lawrie Mott, Francis J Spieler & Kate Udall

Length: 27 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise... Read more

Miniwalla The Forest Story

By: Shirley Choi

Narrated by: Shirley Choi & Adrian da Silver

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Great fun story with catchy tunes and lyric to educate young children about the importance of conservation Read more