Environment & Nature audiobooks

The Birds of Pandemonium

By: Michele Raffin

Narrated by: Tamara Marston

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Michele Raffin has made an important contribution to saving endangered birds, and her book is a fascinating and rarely seen glimpse behind the scenes. The joy she gets from her close relationships with these amazing animals and her outsized commitment to them comes through loud and clear in this engaging and joyful book.” —Dominick Dorsa,... Read more

Elephant Company

By: Vicki Constantine Croke

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe remarkable story of James Howard “Billy” Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world’s largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic war hero known as Elephant BillIn 1920, Billy Williams came to colonial Burma as a “forest man” for a British... Read more

The Tiny House Movement - Living Small

By: Jay Shafer

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Shafer shares virtues of the tiny house and why the movement is getting so much attention. Living simply, meaningfully, and efficiently are among the many advantages. The movement is inspiring a sense of community that urban sprawl has left behind. Innovation in technology, changing economic conditions, and environmental concerns are propelling... Read more

Eyes Wide Open

By: Paul Fleischman

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

What's really going on with the environment - in our own backyards and the wider world? Conflicting information is offered by websites, magazines, and documentaries that blur the line between news and opinion. Not every report is reliable; not every interest group is actually composed of concerned citizens. In this dynamic account, award-winning... Read more

Law of the Jungle

By: Paul M. Barrett

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.

Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with... Read more

This Changes Everything

By: Naomi Klein

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 20 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical... Read more

The Human Age

By: Diane Ackerman

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Our relationship with nature has changed . . . radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable." Our finest literary interpreter of science and nature, Diane Ackerman is justly celebrated for her unique insight into the natural world and our... Read more

Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow

By: Dr. Jan Pol & David Fisher

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised on a dairy farm in the Netherlands, he is the star of Nat Geo Wild's hit show The Incredible Dr. Pol and has been treating animals in rural Michigan since the 1970s. Dr. Pol's 20,000-plus patients have ranged from white mice to 2,600-pound horses and everything in between.




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Sgt. Reckless

By: Robin Hutton

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the complete and captivating account of how a would-be Korean racehorse became one of the greatest Marine Corps wartime heroes.Amid an inferno of explosives on a deadly minefield in the Korean War, a four-legged marine proved to be a heroic force of nature. She moved headstrong up and down steep, smoky terrain that no man could travail... Read more

War of the Whales

By: Joshua Horwitz

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: “Horwitz’s dogged reporting…combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative…. He has written a book that is instructive and passionate and deserving a wide audience” (PEN Award Citation).

Six years in the making, War of the Whales is the “gripping detective... Read more

How to Shit in the Woods

By: Kathleen Meyer

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

World changes come fast and furious, and in the backcountry it is no different. The practice of "packing-it-out"—adopted to protect high-use areas and fragile ecosystems—is here to stay. We are now often urged or even required to haul our poop home. To assist with all this responsible human waste disposal, Kathleen Meyer discusses the latest in... Read more

American Catch

By: Paul Greenberg

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author of Four Fish Paul Greenberg looks to New York oysters, gulf shrimp, and Alaskan salmon to tell the surprising story of why Americans no longer eat from local watersIn 2005, the United States imported twelve billion dollars’ worth of seafood, nearly double what we had imported ten years earlier. During that same period, our... Read more

Every Creeping Thing

By: Richard Conniff

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Popular natural history writer Richard Conniff received much acclaim for his earlier book, Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World. In the same vein, Every Creeping Thing is a fascinating look at some of nature's most misunderstood creatures. Traveling the world over, Conniff shatters popular myths and shares extraordinary... Read more

Moving From Despair To Hope In Threshold Times: Part 2

By: Paul Loeb

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes our activity for positive change in the world makes a visible leap and other times the impact of our work takes a seemingly long time to show any results. As Loeb points out, “You draw hope from the knowledge that whatever it is that you do, something unexpected is going to happen and it often happens at the periphery of your vision.” Read more

Architecture: Portals To Consciousness

By: Anthony Lawlor

Narrated by: Phil Cousineau

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Architect Lawlor feels physical forms frame portals to the vitality and inspiration of consciousness. He shares the idea that beautiful places remind us of those aspects of ourselves. This far ranging dialogue takes us from our homes as a reflection of the quality of our consciousness to why skyscrapers and “McMansions” are giving way to the... Read more

Tweet of the Day

By: Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss

Narrated by: Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine a jazz musician, improvising on a theme. Then imagine that he is able to play half a dozen instruments - not one after another, but almost simultaneously, switching effortlessly between instruments and musical styles with hardly a pause for breath. If you can countenance that, you are halfway towards appreciating the extraordinary song... Read more

The Big Tiny

By: Dee Williams

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A graceful, inspired memoir about building a home from scratch and discovering a true sense of self—in just eighty-four square feet—by Dee Williams, a pioneer in sustainable living and the proud owner of a very tiny houseAfter a heart condition felled Dee Williams in the grocery store ten years ago, she initially threw herself headfirst back... Read more

Overcome obstacles to effective climate policy?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest UN report on climate change suggests ways to potentially ward off the worst impacts of rising emissions. But these scenarios come with real costs, and have faced political opposition as well as reluctance from the American public. Judy Woodruff learns more from Robert Stavins of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Maura... Read more

The Boom

By: Russell Gold

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The “best all-around book yet on fracking” (San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: “Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporary journalism” (Booklist).First invented in 1947, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has not only become a major source of energy, it is changing the way we use energy, and the energy we use. It is... Read more

The Snow Leopard - Abridged

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: Peter Matthiessen

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas...

IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the... Read more

Baptized in PCBs

By: Ellen Griffith Spears

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the... Read more

New Hampshire Moose

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In some regions of northern New England, the moose population is down as much 40 percent in the last three years. The cause of this iconic animal's dramatic die-off is not yet known, but researchers' main theory is centered on the parasitic winter tick, and warmer winters may be partly to blame. Hari Sreenivasan reports from New Hampshire. Read more

The Meat Racket

By: Christopher Leonard

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate? Journalist Christopher Leonard spent more than a decade covering the country's biggest meat companies, including four years as the national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press. Now he delivers the first comprehensive look inside the industrial meat system, exposing how a... Read more

What Works

By: Cal Thomas

Narrated by: Cal Thomas

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

We didn’t just crawl out of a cave. We know what works based on experience. Why must we constantly re-fight the same battles over and over? Our politics and even our spiritual lives too often resemble the film “Groundhog Day” in which actor Bill Murray wakes up and repeats the same event again and again and nothing ever changes, as in... Read more