Environment & Nature audiobooks

How The Government Got in Your Backyard

By: Jeff Gillman

Narrated by: Wes Bleed

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

How the Government Got in Your Backyard distills the science, the politics, and the unbiased, nonpartisan truth behind hot-button environmental issues from pesticides to global warming. By clearly representing what the left says, what the right says, what the science is, and what the facts are, Gillman and Heberlig don't set out to provide the... Read more

The New Rules of Green Marketing

By: Jacquelyn A. Ottman

Narrated by: Jacquelyn Ottman

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Green business and marketing pioneer Jacquelyn Ottman helps organizations achieve competitive advantage by going "beyond green"--promoting their products and services to mainstream audiences by underscoring such primary benefits as health, superior performance, good taste, cost effectiveness or convenience. Read more

Moonshot

By: Dan Parry

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

'It didn't matter that they were now three miles beyond their target site, that communications were dropping out and that they were running low on fuel. All that mattered to Neil as he searched for a safe spot to land was that boulders littered the surface below. "Thirty seconds," called mission control. In truth, the flight controllers were now... Read more

Standing By Trees, Women, And Girls

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Trees are our essential partners in life on this planet. Not only are they indispensable to our wellbeing, they are sacred. Bolen's thwarted efforts to save a magnificent Monterey Pine tree in her yard from those who wanted to have a better view moved her to look at the anatomy and physiology of trees as well as the archetypal and sacred symbols... Read more

The Quiet World

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 23 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Wilderness Warrior, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley offers a riveting, expansive look at the past and present battle to preserve Alaska’s wilderness. Brinkley explores the colorful diversity of Alaska’s wildlife, arrays the forces that have wreaked havoc on its primeval arctic... Read more

Many Miles

By: Mary Oliver

Narrated by: Mary Oliver

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of At Blackwater Pond, this second audio reccording from bestselling poet Mary Oliver contains a selection of thirty-seven previously published poems and four new, read by the poet in her steady, magnetic voice. Oliver recites from the full range of her poetry—from her classic nature writing to her verses for her... Read more

Why Geese Don't Get Obese (And We Do) - Abridged

By: Eric Widmaier

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Imagine being able to consume 250,000 calories daily without gaining weight. If you had the metabolism of a shrew you could. And while most of us can't hold our breath for more than a few minutes, the Weddell seal can remain under water for a full 75 minutes!Through many amazing examples, Why Geese Don't Get Obese discusses the mechanisms... Read more

Bird Cloud

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Joan Allen

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx’s piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.

“Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the... Read more

Hunt For The Nightingale's Song

By: Chris Watson

Narrated by: Rob Thomas

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When he was fourteen years old, some friends of his parents gave wildlife sound recordist, Chris Watson, ‘The Observer's Book of Birds’. Flicking through the pages, Chris was captivated by the description of a bird which sang at night. The bird was a Nightingale; and since first reading about it, Chris has been fortunate enough to hear... Read more

Climate

By: Dana Desonie, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Diana Dorman

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Climate is an informative introduction to the subject of climate change. Though climate change is normal in Earth's history, global warming has raised average temperatures to their highest in two millennia, resulting in melting ice caps, shorter winters, changes in the seasonal behaviors of animals, and more extreme weather. And though... Read more

Dolphin Mysteries

By: Kathleen M. Dudzinski, Ph.D. & Toni Frohoff, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Kym Dakin-Neal

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Dolphins have fascinated humans for millennia, giving rise to an abundance of stories and myths about them, yet the actual details of their lives in the sea have remained elusive. In this enthralling audiobook, Kathleen M. Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff take us into the dolphins' aquatic world to witness firsthand how they live their lives,... Read more

Homer, An Eyeless Cat, Teaches Love And Courage

By: Gwen Cooper

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Homer survived being trapped, without Cooper, for days after 9/11 in an apartment near the World Trade Center. Listen as Cooper shares how his unswerving loyalty, his infinite capacity for love, and his joy in the face of all obstacles inspired her daily and transformed her life. Read more

Harmony

By: Charles HRH The Prince of Wales

Narrated by: Charles HRH The Prince of Wales

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, His Royal Highness Charles, the Prince of Wales, shares his views on how mankind’s most pressing modern challenges are rooted in our disharmony with nature. In the vein of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and Van Jones’ Green Collar Economy, Prince Charles presents the compelling case that solutions to our most dire... Read more

Harmony Children's Edition

By: Charles HRH The Prince of Wales

Narrated by: Charles HRH The Prince of Wales

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

G'night mateys . . .His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales sends an inspiring message about how we can change the course of environmental destruction by living in harmony with Nature.In an adaptation of his adult book Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World for young readers, The Prince shares how many years of research have led him to a... Read more

The Great Penguin Rescue

By: Dyan deNapoli

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 23, 2000, the iron-ore carrier MV Treasure, en route from Brazil to China, foundered off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of oil into the ocean and contaminating the habitat of 75,000 penguins. Realizing that 41 percent of the world's population of African penguins could perish, local conservation officials... Read more

The Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern and Western Box Set

By: Lillian Q. Stokes, Donald Stokes, Lang Elliot &...

Narrated by: Donald Stokes, Lillian Q. Stokes, Lang Elliot &...

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time ever, Eastern and Western Bird Song audio guides from the famed team of Donald and Lillian Stokes will be available in one comprehensive box set with new premium packaging. An incredible 923 species from all of North America are included in this marvelous audio companion to the bestselling Stokes Field Guides. Bonus... Read more

Into the Storm

By: Andrew Tilin & Reed Timmer

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Reed Timmer is one of the most successful and most extreme storm chasers in the world. His is a job that requires science and bravado, knowledge and instinct just to survive, never mind excel. It's a job some people would kill for. But most prefer to let Timmer take the risks while they watch from the safety of their homes. Reed Timmer is a star... Read more

30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog

By: Tamar Geller & Jonathan Grotenstein

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely regarded as the anti-Cesar Millan by dog owners and experts, Tamar Geller's nonaggressive approach to dog training is based on love, play, and mutual respect between dog and owner—much like how a wolf plays with its young. Using a combination of child psychology and animal behavior science, Geller revolutionized the way Americans train... Read more

Feuer-Management für Raumschiff Erde

By: Johann Georg Goldammer & Klaus Sander

Narrated by: Johann Georg Goldammer

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit Jahrhunderttausenden nutzen Menschen Feuer und leben in Kulturlandschaften, die maßgeblich durch Feuer mitgeprägt sind. Doch veränderte Lebensweisen und eine zunehmende Bekämpfung des Feuers haben im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts dazu geführt, dass Ökosysteme vielerorts aus dem Gleichgewicht gerieten. Erst die großen Katastrophenbrände seit... Read more

When Oil Peaked

By: Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Narrated by: Kent Cassella

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In two earlier books, Hubbert's Peak and Beyond Oil, geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes laid out his rationale for concluding that world oil production would continue to follow a bell-shaped curve, with the smoothed-out peak somewhere in the middle of the first decade of this millennium—in keeping with the projections of his former colleague,... Read more

A Nose for Justice

By: Rita Mae Brown

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Co-author of the best-selling Mrs. Murphy novels, Rita Mae Brown launches a new series with this first mystery featuring Baxter the wirehaired dachshund. When Baxter and his owner Mags leave New York for Nevada, they find themselves embroiled in a real head scratcher. First, the local water-pumping station is sabotaged. Then, a murdered man's... Read more

When Our Faith Falters

By: Julia Cameron

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Most all of us have experienced times of spiritual confusion and disconnection from Divine Presence. Where do we turn when we've lost our faith and are overwhelmed by feelings of loneliness? Cameron has gone through such times, and here she reflects on how to rediscover what has spiritually inspired her, and helped release her from an artistic... Read more

To You We Shall Return

By: Joseph M. Marshall III

Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Grandmother, you who listen and hear all, you from whom all good things come…It is your embrace we feel when we return to you.”This traditional Lakota prayer to Grandmother Earth opens Joseph Marshall III’s newest work, a meditation on our connection to the land and an exhortation to respect it. Using a combination of personal anecdote,... Read more

New Orleans Clinic Caring for Underinsured

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Betty Ann Bowser reports from New Orleans on one doctor's success in establishing clinics for the under-insured after Katrina wiped out the city's main charity hospital. Read more