Environment & Nature audiobooks

The Aliens Among Us

By: Leslie Anthony

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From an award-winning adventure and science journalist comes an eye-opening exploration of a burgeoning environmental phenomenon and the science coalescing around it. Leslie Anthony leads listeners on adventures physical and philosophical as he explores how and why invasive species are hijacking ecosystems around the globe.

Weaving science,... Read more

101 Amazing Facts about Birds

By: Jack Goldstein

Narrated by: Jason Zenobia

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that an albatross can fly 15 million miles in a single lifetime?
Or that flamingos can eat only when their heads are upside down? Narrator Jason Zenobia takes us on a captivating trip through the life of the bird as we learn fascinating facts about subjects as diverse as mythical birds, parrots, seabirds and much more. So if you... Read more

The Water Will Come

By: Jeff Goodell

Narrated by: Ian Ferguson

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages.... Read more

The Fate of Rome

By: Kyle Harper

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient worldHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book... Read more

How Evolution Explains Everything About Life

By: New Scientist

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The journey of a lifetime exploring the question of whether life is inevitable or a one-off fluke, and how it got kick-started.

How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first... Read more

Things My Dog Has Taught Me

By: Jonathan Wittenberg

Narrated by: Jonathan Wittenberg

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A dog's guide to life - how to be a kinder, compassionate, more mindful and wiser human.

Anyone who has ever fallen hopelessly in love with a dog will know dogs have the capacity to love us back unconditionally, welcome us home with unbridled excitement, forgive us endlessly for our impatience, comfort us when we're feeling low - and then play... Read more

The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar

By: Matt Simon

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the man behind the popular Wired series "Absurd Creature of the Week," a fun, fascinating collection of unique animals and the unbelievable evolutionary traits they use to survive the most extreme scenarios From Wired columnist Matt Simon, The Wasp that Brainwashed the Caterpillar is an absurdist, comical romp through evolution's weirdest... Read more

The Climate Swerve

By: Robert Jay Lifton

Narrated by: Rudy Sanda

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award–winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton writes, "presents us with what may be the most demanding and... Read more

Little Alf

By: Hannah Russell

Narrated by: Katy Sobey

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

There was once born a very little pony.

Being quite so little, he was rejected by his herd, and the future looked bleak. A few fields over, a young girl was coming to terms with the fact that she would never be able to ride again. Unknowingly, they were about to change each other's lives . . .

The pony was Little Alf, a Shetland pony with... Read more

English

By: Ben Fogle

Narrated by: Rupert Farley

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite – or is it something less easily defined? Beginning at the top of a muddy Gloucestershire slope at the Coopers Hill cheese-rolling contest and traversing a landscape of lawns and queues,... Read more

How to Read Nature

By: Tristan Gooley

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to shut down their senses and stumble through each day in an oblivious bubble, and yet some people end up having much richer experiences than others. In this guidebook, natural navigator Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature. His... Read more

What It's Like to Be a Dog

By: Gregory Berns

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step: they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner—completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different value systems, and a complex understanding of human... Read more

A World of Three Zeros

By: Muhammad Yunus

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet

Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social... Read more

Fishing

By: Brian M. Fagan

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this history of fishing—not as sport but as sustenance—archaeologist and bestselling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization. It sustainably provided enough food to allow cities, nations, and empires to grow, but it did so with a different emphasis. Where... Read more

In central Mexico, earthquake survivors face extensive damage

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Mexico’s government said Sunday that 318 people died from last week's major earthquake, including 180 people in Mexico City, where dozens of buildings collapsed. Outside the city, residents of rural towns and villages are assessing massive damage to their homes and businesses. NewsHour Correspondent William Brangham spoke with residents of... Read more

The Bees

By: Carol Ann Duffy

Narrated by: Carol Ann Duffy

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Swooningly glorious’ The Times

‘Indisputably her best volume’ Sunday Times

The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy’s first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are elegies, too, for beloved friends, and – most movingly – the poet’s own mother.

Woven... Read more

Why Dinosaurs Matter

By: Kenneth Lacovara

Narrated by: Kenneth Lacovara

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

What can long-dead dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth.

By tapping into the ubiquitous wonder that dinosaurs inspire, Lacovara weaves together the stories of our geological awakening, of humanity’s epic struggle to... Read more

The Patch

By: Chris Turner

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Chris Turner brings readers onto the streets of Fort McMurray, showing the myriad ways the oil sands impact our lives and demanding that we ask the question: To both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch?The Patch is the story of Fort McMurray and the oil sands in northern Alberta, the world’s second... Read more

101 Amazing Facts about Dinosaurs

By: Jack Goldstein

Narrated by: Jason Zenobia

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you know which species of dinosaur was named after Hogwarts? Which were the largest and the smallest dinosaurs? How can you tell the difference between a brontosaurus and an Apatosaurus? Narrator Jason Zenobia answers all these questions and more as he talks us through over 100 amazing facts about dinosaurs. All manner of subjects are... Read more

Weather 101

By: Kathleen Sears

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this clear and straight new guide from the author of Grammar 101 and Weather 101, get a crash course in understanding the science behind weather and weather prediction.

Weather is everywhere, and while it’s typically not thought about most of the time, it can get everyone’s attention in an instant—whether it’s the swirling destruction of a... Read more

The Age of the Horse

By: Susanna Forrest

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth—and beginning with the first-known horse-keepers of the Copper Age, the horse has played an integral part in human history. Combining fascinating anthropological detail and incisive personal anecdotes, Susanna Forrest draws from an immense range of archival documents as well as... Read more

Klockan 10.31 på morgonen i Khao Lak

By: Lena Katarina Swanberg & Pigge Werkelin

Narrated by: Gert Lundstedt

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Den 26 december 2004 förlorade 220 000 människor livet i en tsunami i paradisorten Khao Lak, Thailand. Bland de döda fanns Pigge Werkelins fru Ulrika och deras två små söner, Charlie och Max. I boken berättar Pigge om den fruktansvärda tragedin som förändrade hans och så många andras liv, och riktar kritik mot svenska myndigheters hantering av... Read more

101 Amazing Facts about Natural Disasters

By: Jack Goldstein & Frankie Taylor

Narrated by: Andrew Baldwin

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

What exactly is an avalanche? Why do tropical cyclones spin in different directions? What is the deadliest heat wave ever to have been recorded? And what are the three different types of lightning? In this fascinating audio-book, narrator Andrew Baldwin answers all these questions and more as he talks us through over 100 amazing facts about the... Read more

The Killer Whale Who Changed The World

By: Mark Leiren-Young

Narrated by: Mark Leiren-Young

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them. Killer whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea monsters. That all changed when a young killer whale was captured off the west coast of North America and... Read more