Environment & Nature audiobooks

Becoming a Minimalist

By: Kimberly Wilson

Narrated by: Zehra Fazal

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

** Discover that having LESS is MORE... Get more freedom, more time, save money and more, by eliminating the excess in your life and focusing on the essentials. **Would you like to go to sleep at night knowing that your day was spent as you truly wanted to spend it? Would you like to feel sure that you didn’t waste time and energy on meaningless... Read more

The Last Rhinos

By: Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be the largest land mammal since the woolly mammoth to go extinct. In The Last Rhinos, Anthony recounts his attempts to save these remarkable... Read more

Trekking the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Gail Storey & Porter Storey, M.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

She was a talker, he, the silent type. How did they bridge their differences in temperaments and skills as they thirsted through deserts, forded icy rapids, stumbled through snow, and met up with a mountain lion? Hear the amazing highs and intense lows as every part of their physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual bodies were challenged. Read more

Florida Bird Songs

By: Donald J. Borror & Maurice L. Glitz

Narrated by: Uncredited

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A noted ornithologist’s outstanding field recordings of songs and calls, this audiobook covers 60 birds with several recordings for each. Read more

Songs of Western Birds

By: Donald J. Borror

Narrated by: Uncredited

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Noted ornithologist's outstanding field recordings of songs and calls. This set covers 60 birds with several recordings for each. Read more

Bird Song and Behavior

By: Donald J. Borror

Narrated by: Uncredited

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic work examining bird song as both a means of identification and study of behavior, and citing 72 species and 51 songs. Read more

Common Bird Songs

By: Donald J. Borror

Narrated by: Uncredited

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The songs and calls of 60 different, widely distributed birds of the United States and Canada reproduced in a 50-minute recording. Read more

Songs of Eastern Birds

By: Donald J. Borror

Narrated by: Uncredited

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Outstanding field recordings of songs and calls of 60 species most common to the eastern U.S.: Warblers, Woodpeckers, Flycatchers, Thrushes, Larks, many more. Read more

Climate Scientists Warn Opportunity to Prevent Dangerous Warming is Dwindling

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Ray Suarez talks to Michael Oppenheimer, a professor at Princeton University and member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, about a new scientific assessment that updates the previously-held understanding of the rate and consequences of global warming. Read more

Countdown

By: Alan Weisman

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 18 hours

Abridged: No

A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.

In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his... Read more

Melting Ice, Warming Waters Could Erode Way of Life

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Alaska's North Slope is ground zero for global climate change. NewsHour producer April Brown reports the melting ice has opened up opportunity for shipping and other development - industry that could be catastrophic for the way of life of residents. Read more

Oil and Honey

By: Bill McKibben

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet

Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty... Read more

This Other London

By: John Rogers

Narrated by: John Rogers & Russell Brand

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten reaches. Foreword written and read... Read more

Clutter Be Gone!

By: Kimberly Wilson

Narrated by: Zehra Fazal

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Has your busy and fast-paced life reduced your home to a clutter-fest? Are you tired of losing your car keys, glasses, remote control, and temper in all the clutter?Does the thought that, “I really need to take care of that mess,” drag you down every day and hold you back from enjoying your time at home? Maybe you’d like to learn how to shave 3... Read more

Ten Billion

By: Stephen Emmott

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us.
 
As the population continues to grow, our problems will increase. And this means that every way we look at it, a planet of ten billion people is likely to be a... Read more

The Esperanza Fire

By: John Maclean

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Esperanza Fire started October 26, 2006, in the San Jacinto Mountains above the Banning Pass near Cabazon, California. It destroyed 41,000 acres and dozens of homes and cost the taxpayers $16 million dollars. But by far the highest costs of the conflagration were the lives of the five-man crew of Engine 57, the first engine crew ever killed... Read more

Tempers May Flare as Climate Change Heats Up, Study Finds

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A new study shows that changes in the climate also affect human behavior. According to researchers, even slight increases in temperature and rainfall correlate to increased levels of violence. Ray Suarez discusses the findings with study lead author Solomon Hsiang of the University of California, Berkeley. Read more

What the Animals Taught Me

By: Stephanie Marohn

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What the Animals Taught Me is the story of how a woman came upon farm animals that needed rescuing and what she learned from them as they gradually changed her home in Sonoma County, California, into an animal sanctuary.Wishing to escape the urban rat race, freelance writer and editor Stephanie Marohn moved to rural Northern California in 1993.... Read more

A Piece of the Sun

By: Daniel Clery

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Our rapidly industrializing world has an insatiable hunger for energy and conventional sources are struggling to meet demand. Oil is running out, coal is damaging our climate, many nations are abandoning nuclear, yet solar, wind, and water will never be a complete replacement. The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply researched and... Read more

A Piece of the Sun

By: Daniel Clery

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Our rapidly industrializing world has an insatiable hunger for energy and conventional sources are struggling to meet demand. Oil is running out, coal is damaging our climate, many nations are abandoning nuclear, yet solar, wind, and water will never be a complete replacement. The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply researched and... Read more

The Pipeline and the Paradigm

By: Samuel Avery

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This thoroughly researched and wholly engaging book investigates the economic, ecological, political, and psychological issues behind the Keystone XL pipeline - a project so controversial it has inspired the largest expression of civil disobedience since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

With enough carbon trapped in the Canadian tar sands... Read more

The Shark’s Paintbrush

By: Jay Harman

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Why does the bumblebee have better aerodynamics than a 747? What structural design is shared by a tornado and a blood vessel?Since the Industrial Revolution, manufacturers have built things by a process known as "heat, beat, and treat." They use enormous amounts of energy to heat raw material, shape it with heavy machinery, and maintain its... Read more

Balance Costa Rica's Farming With Preservation

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

As part of the NewsHour's series "Food for 9 Billion," special correspondent Sam Eaton reports on a push in Costa Rica to embrace forest preservation and biodiversity while keeping up with the demand for farming. Researchers are measuring the helpful roles of small animals like bats, birds and bees. Read more

Wild Life in a Southern County (Excerpted Essay)

By: Richard Jeffries

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Jefferies remains one of the most thoughtful and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. Best known for his articles and stories published in the Live Stock Journal, he draws from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community into which he had been born. Here he examines the habitats of the Downs and the birds and animals that... Read more