Environment & Nature audiobooks

Junk Raft

By: Marcus Eriksen

Narrated by: James Cronin

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An exciting account of a scientist’s expedition across the Pacific on a home-made “junk raft” in order to learn more about plastic marine pollution

A scientist, activist, and inveterate adventurer, Eriksen and his co-navigator, Joel Paschal, construct a “junk raft” made of plastic trash and set themselves adrift from Los Angeles to Hawaii, with... Read more

Shark Drunk

By: Morten Stroksnes

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A salty story of friendship, adventure, and the explosive life that teems beneath the ocean
 
The Lofoten archipelago, just North of the Arctic Circle, is a place of unsurpassed beauty—the skyline spikes with dramatic peaks; the radiant greens and purples of the Northern Lights follow summers where the sun never sets. It’s a place of small... Read more

My First Summer in the Sierra

By: John Muir

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1869, Scottish immigrant John Muir worked as a shepherd in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. The diary he kept during this time was later adapted into My First Summer in the Sierra, which was published in 1911. His record describes the majestic vistas, flora and fauna, and other natural wonders of the area. Having inspired... Read more

The Horse God Built

By: Lawrence Scanlan

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Horse God Built, bestselling equestrian writer Lawrence Scanlan has written a tribute to an exceptional man that is also a backroads journey to a corner of the racing world rarely visited.



As a young black man growing up in South Carolina, Eddie Sweat struggled at several occupations before settling on the job he was born for—groom to... Read more

The Wonder of Birds

By: Jim Robbins

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Birds, Jim Robbins posits, are our most vital connection to nature. They compel us to look to the skies, both literally and metaphorically; draw us out into nature to seek their beauty; and let us experience vicariously what it is like to be weightless. Birds have helped us in so many of our human endeavors: learning to fly, providing clothing... Read more

Fighting for fresh water in the Marshall Islands

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

President Donald Trump has said he is withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate accords, rejecting that wealthier nations, which have the biggest carbon footprints, should help poorer nations vulnerable to climate changes. One such place is the Marshall Islands, which is affected by these changes and struggling to find fresh water. NewsHour... Read more

The Spell of the Sensuous

By: David Abram

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people but with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patterns) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How,... Read more

Ancient Wonderings

By: James Canton

Narrated by: James Canton

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Intensely alive to the landscape; its pasts, people and creatures’ Robert Macfarlane Take a journey into our ancient past. Explore a long-lost landscape and gradually discover the minds, beliefs and cultural practices of those souls who lived on these lands thousands of years before you. ... Read more

Down to the River and Up to the Trees

By: Sue Belfrage

Narrated by: Sue Belfrage

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

READ BY THE AUTHOR ** A Winner of the Woodland Books of the Year Award ** In a stressful, chaotic world, many of us are turning to nature for a sense of serenity and happiness. While the idea of the wild outdoors is enticing, though, our busy lives and our location can cause us to... Read more

Guide to Peter Wohlleben's The Hidden Life of Trees by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Dwight Equitz

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees and NOT the original book.
Preview:
In The Hidden Life of Trees (2015), Peter Wohlleben shares expert insights and observations from his work as a professional forest-keeper at Eifel Mountain, Germany. Basing his theories on scientific data, Wohlleben suggests that... Read more

Witness Tree

By: Lynda V. Mapes

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Climate science can seem dense, remote, and abstract. But through the lens of this one tree, it becomes immediate and intimate.



In Witness Tree, environmental reporter Lynda V. Mapes takes us through her year living with one red oak at the Harvard Forest. We learn about carbon cycles and leaf physiology, but also experience the seasons as people... Read more

The Ends of the World

By: Peter Brannen

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future.Our world has... Read more

Guide to Michael Bloomberg's & et al Climate of Hope by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Dwight Equitz

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Michael Bloomberg’s & et al Climate of Hope and NOT the original book.
Preview:
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses and Citizens Can Save the Planet (2017) is a collaboration between businessman, philanthropist, and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and longtime environmentalist and former... Read more

Upstream

By: Langdon Cook

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • From the award-winning author of The Mushroom Hunters comes the story of an iconic fish, perhaps the last great wild food: salmon.

For some, a salmon evokes the distant wild, thrashing in the jaws of a hungry grizzly bear on TV. For others, it’s the catch of the day on a restaurant menu, or a deep... Read more

Cosmos

By: Carl Sagan

Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Ty...

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOXCosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of... Read more

Super-Charged

By: Jim Rendon

Narrated by: Michael Hinton

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Marijuana has been illegal in the United States since 1937. Yet, thanks in large part to a loosely connected underground world of breeders, dealers, and smokers, there are currently more than 2000 varieties available. And since 1996, when California first passed legislation allowing for legalized medical marijuana, the underground has slowly... Read more

Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs

By: Roger Lederer

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don't see is the arduous, life-threatening challenges they face at every moment. Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs guides the listener through the myriad, and often almost miraculous, things that... Read more

A-Birding on a Bronco

By: Florence A. Merriam

Narrated by: Victoria Bradley

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A-Birding on a Bronco contains the author's notes taken at Twin Oaks in Southern California in spring and summer of 1889 and 1894. During her rides she met more than 50 different bird species. She recalls her daily routine as follows: "Every morning, right after breakfast, my horse was brought to the door and I set out to make the rounds of the... Read more

The Hidden Lives of Owls

By: Leigh Calvez

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, a naturalist probes the forest to comprehend the secret lives of owls. Leigh Calvez takes listeners on an adventure into the world of owls: owl-watching, avian science, and the deep forest—often in the dead of night. These birds are a bit mysterious, and that's part of what makes them so fascinating. Calvez... Read more

Young Men and Fire

By: Norman Maclean

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back... Read more

A Speck in the Sea

By: John Aldridge & Anthony Sosinski

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The harrowing adventure-at-sea memoir recounting the heroic search-and-rescue mission for lost Montauk fisherman John Aldridge, which Daniel James Brown calls "A terrific read."

I am floating in the middle of the night, and nobody in the world even knows I am missing. Nobody is looking for me. You can't get more alone than that. You can't be... Read more

Tyrannosaurus Sue

By: Steve Fiffer

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 65 million years ago in what is now South Dakota, a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch―perhaps mortally wounded in a ferocious fight―fell into the riverbed and died. In 1990 her skeleton was found, virtually complete, in what many have called the most spectacular dinosaur fossil discovery to date.And then another battle began—a... Read more

Sacred Economics

By: Charles Eisenstein

Narrated by: Steve Wojtas

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great... Read more

American Serengeti

By: Dan Flores

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

America’s Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John... Read more