Environment & Nature audiobooks

Salleyland

By: Whit Gibbons

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Following his retirement from academic life, renowned naturalist and writer Whit Gibbons and his family purchased a tract of abandoned farmland where the South Carolina piedmont meets the coastal plain. Described as backcountry scrubland, it was originally envisioned as a family retreat, but soon the property became Gibbons's outdoor learning... Read more

Tenacious Beasts

By: Christopher J. Preston

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The news about wildlife is dire—more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, however, there are also glimmers of hope and crucial lessons to be learned from animals that have defied global trends toward extinction: bears in Italy, bison in North America, whales in the Atlantic. These... Read more

Chrysalis

By: Kim Todd

Narrated by: Amélie Trufant Dawson

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Darwin, before Audubon, there was Maria Sibylla Merian.An artist turned naturalist, Merian was born just 16 years after Galileo proclaimed that the Earth orbited the sun. But at the age of 50, she sailed from Europe to South America on a solo scientific expedition to study insect metamorphosis—an unheard-of journey for any naturalist at... Read more

Premoniciones

By: Alfonso Tarancón & Javier del Valle

Narrated by: Fernando Simón

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Algo catastrófico está a punto de suceder; la Tierra se está convirtiendo en la nueva religión a la que los políticos deben rendir culto en las cumbres del clima y en sus discursos diarios. Si en la Edad Media se visitaban líderes religiosos, ahora se visitan plantas de reciclaje y de energías renovables. En lugar de advertir que el fin del... Read more

Sundaland: The History of the Asian Landmass that Started Sinking After the Ice Age

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: KC Wayman

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

By the time the Pleistocene Epoch ended around 12,000 years ago, Homo sapiens had become one of the most significant species on the planet. It was also near the end of that period of time that modern humans began to gradually populate what would become Europe, Asia, and the Americas, eventually becoming the inheritors of the Paleolithic era and... Read more

Bully for Brontosaurus

By: Stephen Jay Gould

Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best." —John... Read more

Windswept

By: Annie Worsley

Narrated by: Carolyn Bonnyman

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE ‘An instant classic of British nature-writing’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a... Read more

Climate Resilience

By: Kylie Flanagan

Narrated by: Henriette Zoutomou

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An intersectional primer for saving the planet: place-based perspectives and community-led tools for fighting climate change

For readers of The Intersectional Environmentalist and All We Can Save

In Climate Resilience, climate justice and resilience strategist Kylie Flanagan invites us to see and act beyond: beyond status-quo solutions, Big Tech... Read more

The Wise Hours

By: Miriam Darlington

Narrated by: Hannah Curtis

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Owls have existed for over sixty million years, and in the relatively short time we have shared the planet with these majestic birds they have ignited the human imagination. But even as owls continue to captivate our collective consciousness, celebrated British nature writer Miriam Darlington finds herself struck by all she doesn't know about... Read more

Urwelten

By: Thomas Halliday

Narrated by: Marco Sven Reinbold

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

»Das beste Buch, das ich je über die Geschichte des Lebens auf der Erde gelesen habe.« Tom Holland Tropische Wälder in der Antarktis. Ein Wasserfall von unvorstellbarer Größe, der das trockene Mittelmeerbecken mit Leben füllt. Eine Python, die in der kenianischen Savanne frühe Verwandte des Menschen auf Bäume jagt. Die Vergangenheit ist lebendig... Read more

Oil Beach

By: Christina Dunbar-Hester

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.

Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade?
 
San Pedro Bay, which contains the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is a significant site for petroleum shipping... Read more

Refuge

By: Terry Tempest Williams

Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its... Read more

In the Herbarium

By: Maura C. Flannery

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and labeled plants have been essential resources for scientists, allowing them to describe and differentiate species and to document and research plant changes and biodiversity over time—including changes related to climate.



Maura C.... Read more

Love for the Land

By: Brooks Lamb

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Love for the Land explores the power and potential of people-place relationships. Through clear and compelling prose, it elevates the virtues of imagination, affection, and fidelity—concepts promoted by farmer-writer Wendell Berry—and shows how they motivate small- and mid-scale farmers to care for the land, even in the face of adversity. Paying... Read more

Environmental Science For Dummies, 2nd Edition

By: Alecia M. Spooner

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Environmental Science For Dummies is a straightforward guide to the interrelationships of the natural world and the role that humans play in the environment. This book tracks to a typical introductory environmental science curriculum at the college level—and is great as a supplement or study guide for AP Environmental Science, too. If you're in... Read more

The Handbook of Home Design

By: Laura Jane Clark

Narrated by: Laura Jane Clark

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Architectural solutions & designs to optimize the spaces in your home without spending a fortune.

Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and Netflix smash-hit series Your Home Made Perfect, has spent over 15 years designing, remodelling, and building homes with budgets that range from modest to enormous. THE HANDBOOK OF HOME DESIGN distils... Read more

Earth

By: Chris Packham & Andrew Cohen

Narrated by: Rupert Evans

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough’s Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox’s Universe’ Guardian A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet. ... Read more

Recycling For Dummies

By: Sarah Winkler

Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Recycling is a simple action we can take that has an immediate positive effect. It keeps waste out of landfills, conserves natural resources, prevents pollution, and saves energy. But recycling isn't always straightforward. With so many different rules, it can be tough to understand. If you're worried that you're not recycling properly, or... Read more

Kings of Their Own Ocean

By: Karen Pinchin

Narrated by: Karen Pinchin

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

**THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**

Winner of the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and the 2024 Taste Canada Culinary Narrative Award

Shortlisted for the 2024 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and the Taste Canada Award for Culinary Narrative

This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the... Read more

Wasteland

By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis

Narrated by: Chris Harper

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy—and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?

In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste... Read more

The Nature Book

By: Tom Comitta

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Part sweeping evocation of Earth's rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet.



What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The... Read more

The Accidental Ecosystem

By: Peter S. Alagona

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpectedly, with wild creatures. Today, many of these cities have more wild animals living in them than at any time in at least the past 150 years. Why have so many cities—the most artificial and... Read more

The Forest Underground

By: Tony Rinaudo

Narrated by: Tim Dehn

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Australian Christian Book of the Year Award 2022How do you regreen millions of hectares of land without planting a single tree? The remarkable discovery story of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is told in Tony Rinaudo’s new autobiography, The Forest Underground: Hope for a Planet in Crisis, published in 2022 by... Read more

Returning Light

By: Robert L. Harris

Narrated by: Robert L. Harris

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Acclaimed International Bestseller “It is impossible to do justice to the beauty of Returning Light. The whole book is a poem.” — New York Times Book ReviewBy the lighthouse keeper on the remote, otherworldly Irish island of Skellig Michael, a ""profound memoir about the importance of place and what it really means to belong"" (Belfast... Read more