Environment & Nature audiobooks

Waiting for the Albino Dunnock

By: Rosamond Richardson

Narrated by: Jane Whittenshaw

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by a beginner-birdwatcher with the freshness and passion of a convert, WAITING FOR THE ALBINO DUNNOCK explores the world of birds through the seasons of a single year. It describes encounters with particular birds in the landscapes of East Anglia where the author is rooted. Occasional journeys farther afield take the reader to truly wild... Read more

The Madhouse Effect

By: Michael E. Mann & Tom Toles

Narrated by: Alan Taylor

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of The Madhouse Effect is the award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann, who has been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of his career. He has witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the unconscionable play to partisanship on issues that affect the well-being of... Read more

Homing Instincts

By: Sarah Menkedick

Narrated by: Sarah Menkedick

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Menkedick spent her twenties trekking alone across South America, teaching English to recalcitrant teenagers on Réunion Island, picking grapes in France and camping on the Mongolian grasslands; for her, meaning and purpose were to be found on the road, in flight from the ordinary. Yet the biggest and most transformative adventure of her... Read more

Talking to Animals

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz—“a Thoreau for modern times” (San Antonio Express-News)—offers us a deeper understanding of the inner lives of animals and teaches us how we can more effectively communicate with them, made real by his own remarkable experiences with a wide array of creatures great and small.

In Talking to Animals,... Read more

Odd Birds

By: Ian Harding

Narrated by: Ian Harding

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"Harding fondly shares observant moments in nature, during which his love of animals is evident in his pleasant tone punctuated by moments of awe." — AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.

A 7-time Teen Choice Award Winner on Freeform's most-watched series, Pretty Little Liars … A social media influencer with over 7 million... Read more

Drones keep elephants away from people in Tanzania

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Serengeti region in Tanzania, conflict can arise between humans and the elephants that graze on their crops. The U.S.-based nonprofit RESOLVE is testing a new way to reduce these clashes while protecting both elephants and humans: drones. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Christopher Livesay traveled to Tanzania to learn more about... Read more

Braving It

By: James Campbell

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell's cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him: Would she be able to withstand clouds of... Read more

Ocean Country

By: Liz Cunningham

Narrated by: Ellen Jaffe

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ocean Country is an adventure story, a call to action, and a poetic meditation on the state of the seas. But most importantly it is the story of finding true hope in the midst of one of the greatest crises to face humankind, the rapidly degrading state of our environment. After a near-drowning accident in which she was temporarily paralyzed, Liz... Read more

Climate of Hope

By: Michael Bloomberg & Carl Pope

Narrated by: Michael Bloomberg, Carl Pope & Charles Pellett

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Carl Pope and Charles Pellett with an introduction read by the author.

From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world... Read more

The Reducetarian Solution

By: Brian Kateman

Narrated by: Graham Halstead & Amanda Ronconi

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Kateman coined the term "Reducetarian"—a person who is deliberately reducing his or her consumption of meat—and a global movement was born. In this book, Kateman, the founder of the Reducetarian Foundation, presents more than seventy original essays from influential thinkers on how the simple act of cutting ten percent or more of the meat... Read more

Lead with Your Heart

By: Allan J. Hamilton, MD

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author and celebrated neurosurgeon Allan J. Hamilton, MD, combines his understanding of the human brain with nearly 30 years' experience training horses to offer wisdom on such universal themes as leadership, motivation, ambition, and humility. The results are showcased in more than 100 thoughtful essays that treat working with... Read more

Where the Water Goes

By: David Owen

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal

An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes.

The Colorado River is an... Read more

Building the New American Economy

By: Jeffrey D. Sachs

Narrated by: Rudy Sanda

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

With a nation seemingly more divided than ever, many worry that Americans risk losing ground on solving the complex, interrelated problems the country faces—including rising inequality, the specter of climate change, astronomical health care costs, and economic stagnation. The renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical approach to... Read more

Self-Reliant Gardening

By: Janet Williams, Will Cook & Liv Montgomery

Narrated by: Liv Montgomery, Derek Doepker, Dan Culhane & Ba...

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Whether you are looking for a backup disaster plan or you just want to live a more self-reliant lifestyle, homegrown food and remedies offer you the freedom of choice to take care of yourself. To start with, this comprehensive program will show you how you can have homegrown, garden-fresh fruits and vegetables anytime and anywhere you want.... Read more

Wonderland

By: Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss

Narrated by: Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

'Vibrant, fascinating, poetic - a year in living things: all the things we love, all the things we wish we could, all the little things we step over and never know - the best of British wildlife from two superb naturalists and writers' CHRIS PACKHAM

A life-affirming nature diary - with something amazing to see and experience on every day of the... Read more

Hidden Nature

By: Alys Fowler

Narrated by: Miranda Cook

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Leaving her garden to the mercy of the slugs, award-winning writer Alys Fowler set out in an inflatable kayak to explore Birmingham's canal network, full of little-used waterways where huge pike skulk and kingfishers dart.

Her book is about noticing the wild everywhere and what it means to see beauty where you least expect it. What happens when... Read more

A Fly Rod of Your Own

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

John Gierach is known for his witty, trenchant observations about fly-fishing. In A Fly Rod of Your Own, Gierach once again takes us into his world and scrutinizes the art of fly-fishing. He travels to remote fishing locations where the airport is not much bigger than a garage and a flight might be held up because a passenger is running late. He... Read more

The Songs of Trees

By: David George Haskell

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & David George Haskell

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees 

"At once lyrical and informative, filled with beauty." – Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

David Haskell’s award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world.... Read more

Body of Water

By: Chris Dombrowski

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passions—poetry and fly-fishing; two children, one of them in utero; and an income hovering perilously close to zero. Enter, at this particularly challenging moment, a miraculous email: can’t go, it’s all paid for, just book a flight to Miami.

Thus began a journey that would lead to the Bahamas... Read more

The Inner Life of Cats

By: Thomas McNamee

Narrated by: Bob Reed

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Our feline companions are much-loved but often mysterious. In The Inner Life of Cats, Thomas McNamee blends scientific reportage with engaging, illustrative anecdotes about his own beloved cat, Augusta, to explore and illuminate the secrets and enigmas of her kind.

As it begins, The Inner Life of Cats follows the development of the young Augusta... Read more

The Sting of the Wild

By: Justin O. Schmidt

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it's a brave exploration, others shake their heads in disbelief. His goal? To compare the impacts of stinging insects on humans, mainly using himself as the gauge.



In The Sting of the Wild, the colorful Dr. Schmidt takes us on a journey inside the lives of stinging insects, seeing the world... Read more

Indian Creek Chronicles

By: Pete Fromm

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this... Read more

Wildness in a Modern Age – The Reintroduction of Wolves to the Landscape

By: Brenda Peterson

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

There are some successful programs to reintroduce wild wolves into their natural habitat in the U.S. This keystone species recovery activity is a long game and there remains much opposition to this movement, at least some of which stems from our mythological view of wolves as standing for all that is vicious, dangerous, and savage. Peterson... Read more

Strange Company

By: Jean Ryan

Narrated by: Nikiya Palombi

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In Strange Company, a delightful collection of short essays, Jean Ryan brings us closer to the natural world. From lizards to lady bugs, from the inscrutable sloth to the resplendent quetzal, Ryan reveals some of our commonalities with earth's creatures and hints at the lessons we might learn from them.Do lizards fall in love? What do sloths... Read more