Environment & Nature audiobooks

The Otters’ Tale

By: Simon Cooper

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 ‘The best popular account of the lives of otters written so far’ Richard Shelton, Times Literary Supplement When Simon Cooper bought an abandoned water mill that straddles a small chalkstream in southern England, little did he... Read more

Fool's Paradise

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

If John Gierach is living in a fool's paradise, then it's a paradise that his regular readers will recognize and new fans will delight in discovering. Laced with the inimitable blend of wit and wisdom that have made him fly-fishing's foremost scribe, Fool's Paradise chronicles the fishing life in all its glory (catching your biggest fish ever)... Read more

Simply Clean

By: Becky Rapinchuk

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the cleaning and homekeeping expert and creator of the wildly popular Clean Mama blog comes a simple and accessible cleaning guide with a proven step-by-step schedule for tidying a home in just ten minutes a day.

Becky Rapinchuk, the “Clean Mama,” understands that many people don’t have the time, organizational skills, or homemaking habits... Read more

The Cyanide Canary

By: Robert Dugoni & Joseph Hilldorfer

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Early in the morning on August 27, 1996, twenty-year-old Scott Dominguez showed up for an ordinary day at the fertilizing plant where he worked. By 11:00 a.m., he was clinging to life, unconscious and suffocating from toxic exposure to cyanide in a tank that was supposed to contain only mud and water.



EPA Special Agent Joseph Hilldorfer was... Read more

Policies helped South Korea's capital decrease food waste

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

About one-third of all the food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted, according to the United Nations. But several years ago, South Korea instituted a law that requires residents to separate food waste from other garbage and imposes fines on anyone who does not recycle. The NewsHour Weekend’s Mori Rothman reports. Read more

Raising Beef Cattle for Beginner's Guide

By: Carson Wyatt

Narrated by: JP Worlton

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you new to raising beef cattle, and don't know exactly where to start? Don't feel like reading over 300 pages right now, but just want to get the basic grasp of what beef cattle farming entails and the potential it can make for you and your family? Then this is the book for you! It's can be overwhelming and exciting to take on such an... Read more

Never Out of Season

By: Rob Dunn

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The bananas we eat today aren't your parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent breakfast fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out.

That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought... Read more

Asteroid Hunters

By: Carrie Nugent

Narrated by: Carrie Nugent

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, scientists could have the knowledge to prevent a natural disaster epic in scale—an asteroid hitting the earth and in this exciting, adventuresome book, Carrie Nugent explains how.

What are asteroids, and where do they come from? And, most urgently: Are they going to hit the Earth? What would happen if one was on its way?... Read more

Forces of Nature

By: Professor Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen

Narrated by: Samuel West

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Sunday Times Bestseller A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions. How did life on Earth begin?What is the nature of space and time?What... Read more

How scientists are tracking a massive iceberg

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Antarctica's Larsen Ice Shelf is disappearing section by section. A fast-growing rift, one of the largest ever seen, is now teetering on the edge of breaking away from the glacier. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien explores how scientists have tracked the steady loss of ice. Read more

Imagining A Sustainable and Regenerative Society

By: Daniel Pinchbeck

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Change is going to come no matter what, so it behooves us to engage our imagination toward the kind of future we want. We need to go deep into what truly makes us happy. Pinchbeck is advocating nothing less than the need to embrace our responsibility for understanding what’s happening and play an active part in caring for the world. Even though... Read more

No Shortage of Good Days

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In No Shortage of Good Days John Gierach takes listeners from the Smokies in Tennessee to his home waters in Colorado, from the Canadian Maritimes to Mexico—saltwater or fresh, it's all fishing and all irresistible. As always he writes perceptively about a wide range of subjects: the charm of familiar waters, the etiquette of working with new... Read more

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

By: Dan Egan

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award

A landmark work of science, history and reporting on the past, present and imperiled future of the Great Lakes.
The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and... Read more

Other Minds

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds

Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the... Read more

Zero Waste Home

By: Bea Johnson

Narrated by: Henrietta Meire

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In Zero Waste Home, Bea Johnson shares the story of how she simplified her life by reducing her waste. Today, Bea, her husband, Scott, and their two young sons produce just one quart of garbage a year, and their overall quality of life has changed for the better: they now have more time together, they’ve cut their annual spending by a remarkable... Read more

Wandering and Wondering in our Native Landscape

By: Kate Marianchild

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For many years Marianchild has been deeply involved in observing and studying the flora and fauna of her local landscape. She’s trained herself as an amateur naturalist watching wildlife, leading nature walks, and giving slide presentations. Here she shares the delight that comes from walking slowly or sitting quietly in nature, and describes... Read more

Fighting to breathe in the world's most polluted city

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Delhi now outranks Beijing as the world's most polluted city. Carbon dioxide, ozone and fine carbon particles get trapped over India's capital, mostly due to dirty fuels, causing long-term health consequences such as lung and heart disease. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on some efforts to lessen the environmental toll on... Read more

Animal Wisdom

By: Linda Bender

Narrated by: Ellen Jaffe

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

How is it that pets are able to travel thousands of miles through unknown territory to reunite with their beloved humans? How can dogs detect cancer with up to a 98 percent accuracy rate, and foresee epileptic or diabetic seizures in their owners? How do animals seem to know an earthquake is coming long before the world's best seismologists?
In... Read more

The Unnatural World

By: David Biello

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Unnatural World chronicles a disparate band of unlikely heroes: an effervescent mad scientist who would fertilize the seas; a pigeon obsessive bent on bringing back the extinct; a low-level government functionary in China doing his best to clean up his city, and more. These scientists, billionaires, and ordinary people are all working toward... Read more

Tides

By: Jonathan White

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides.In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a... Read more

The Nature Fix

By: Florence Williams

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; Nikola Tesla conceived the electric motor while visiting a park. Intrigued by our storied renewal in the natural world, Florence Williams sets out to uncover the... Read more

Beastly Brains

By: Nancy F. Castaldo

Narrated by: Charon Normand-Widmer

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In Beastly Brains, Nancy Castaldo delves into the minds of animals and explores animal empathy, communication, tool use, and social societies through interviews and historical anecdotes. Researchers from Charles Darwin to Jane Goodall have spent years analyzing the minds of animals, and today's science is revolutionizing old theories and... Read more

All Fishermen Are Liars

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For John Gierach, “the master of fly-fishing” (Sacramento Bee), fishing is always the answer—even when it’s not clear what the question is. In All Fishermen Are Liars, Gierach travels around North America seeking out quintessential fishing experiences, whether it’s at a busy stream or a secluded lake hidden amid snow-capped mountains. He talks... Read more

The Good Rain

By: Timothy Egan

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics. Read more