Environment & Nature audiobooks

The Sounds of Life

By: Karen Bakker

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Suzanne Toren takes you on an amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature's soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow... Read more

The Botany of Desire

By: Michael Pollan

Narrated by: Michael Pollan

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America

In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for... Read more

Minding the Climate

By: Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

If we believe the climate crisis is real, why is it so difficult to change our behavior and our consumer tendencies?

Minding the Climate investigates this problem in the neuroscience of decision-making. Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD, points to the evolution of the human brain during eons of resource scarcity. The brain adapted to prioritize... Read more

Hidden Nature

By: Michael Ray Taylor

Narrated by: Michael Ray Taylor

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021

More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. Thousands more riddle surrounding states. In Hidden Nature, Michael Ray Taylor tells the story of... Read more

Climate Worrier

By: Colm O’Regan

Narrated by: Colm O’Regan

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Colm O’Regan is a worrier. A professional one. Caution is his watchword. Risk aversion is his love language. Now Colm is grappling with the biggest worry of all: the whole ‘planet being on fire’ thing and how exactly we can help. Don’t worry, this isn’t a book telling you how to... Read more

The Rescue Effect

By: Michael Mehta Webster

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the face of climate change and other environmental threats, this testament to Earth's resilience “makes a convincing case the natural world still has a lot worth fighting for” (New York Times bestselling author Paul Greenberg).
 
As climate change continues to intensify, the outlook for life on Earth often seems bleak. Yet hope for the future... Read more

If We Act Now - the surprisingly simple steps we can take to avoid the worst of climate crisis

By: Thomas Hebsgaard, Rasmus Thirup Beck & Mads Nyvold

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Join us on a journey around the globe and meet the enthusiasts, technologies, and decision-makers that are proving that humans are indeed capable of saving us from ourselves. The challenges may be great, but there are a number of opportunities to stall climate change – perhaps even reverse it. This book offers a glimpse of how to do just that.... Read more

The Poem Forest

By: Carrie Fountain

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"All his life, William Stanley searched for a wild place of his own. Growing up in the straightened-out city blocks of his childhood and finding some respite in summer trips to a cabin in the woods, he yearned for space, fragrant soil, tall trees, and the silence that surrounds them. In Hawaii, he learned of acres of land depleted from toxic... Read more

Sacred Sendoffs

By: Sarah A. Bowen

Narrated by: Stina Nielsen

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An elegant manifesto for improving life—and death—for all beings on sacred Mother Earth

Combining humorous anecdotes and thought-provoking research, Sacred Sendoffs explores human relationships with beloved pets, wild creatures, animal astronauts, marine life, farmed animals, and other sentient beings. Along the way, animal chaplain Sarah Bowen... Read more

The Sacred Balance, 25th anniversary edition

By: David Suzuki

Narrated by: David Suzuki, Megan Tooley & Zack Sage

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Sacred Balance has a beautiful spirit.”—E.O. WilsonWith a new foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times-bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass—and an afterword from Bill McKibben—this special 25th anniversary edition of a beloved bestseller invites readers to see ourselves as part of nature, not separate.The world is changing at... Read more

Desert Chrome

By: Kathryn Wilder

Narrated by: Kathryn Wilder

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

 “A raw and honest journey of addiction, love, trauma, and redemption—grounded in a deep love of place and all things mustang. The best memoirs reveal the deeply personal in order to see the larger world with renewed clarity and insight—this is one such book. As Wilder moves from heroin to horses, we see a substantive journey of recovery and... Read more

The Grace-Filled Homestead

By: Lana Stenner

Narrated by: Lana Stenner

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For nearly two decades, Lana Stenner and her family have been living their version of the simple life on their small Midwest farmstead—following God, chasing goats, and tending gardens. Join Lana as she shares heartwarming stories, hearty recipes, and some of the valuable lessons she’s learned in her homesteading journey, including the... Read more

The Lady and the Octopus

By: Danna Staaf

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily. There, she took up natural history and solved the two-thousand-year-old mystery of how the argonaut octopus gets its shell. In an era when... Read more

Eco-Types

By: Emily Huddart Kennedy

Narrated by: Jennifer Woodward

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Jennifer Woodward explains why acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarization that undermines our ability to protect the environmentWhen we picture the ideal environmentalist, we likely have in mind someone who dedicates herself to reducing her own environmental footprint... Read more

The Big Teal

By: Simon Holmes à Court

Narrated by: Simon Holmes à Court

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

‘We will not achieve net zero in the cafes, dinner parties and wine bars of our inner cities.’ Little infuriated the forgotten people of the twenty-first century—women and younger voters, especially—more than Scott Morrison’s deluge of disparagement on the issues that mattered to them. The May 2022 election marked the great re-engagement of... Read more

CLEAN AIR

By: Gianfranco Rosolia

Narrated by: Gianfranco Rosolia

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine living without clean air. For the people who lived on the doorstep of Monkton Coke Works, their daily reality was a horrendous nightmare of hazardous and acrid sulfur dioxide emissions, all-pervading soot, and clamorous tannoys. Over decades, the facility grew unflaggingly, converting ever-increasing quantities of coal into coke without... Read more

The Seed Detective

By: Adam Alexander

Narrated by: Calum Beaton

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered how peas, kale, asparagus, beans, squash, and corn have ended up on our plates? Well, Adam Alexander has. Adam Alexander is The Seed Detective. His passion for vegetables was ignited when he tasted an unusual sweet pepper with a fiery heart while on a filmmaking project in Ukraine. Smitten by its flavor, Adam began to seek... Read more

The Carbon Footprint of Everything

By: Mike Berners-Lee

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

● Calculate your carbon footprint: with an item-by-item breakdown.



● Meet your company's carbon goals: using the latest research.



● COVID-19 and the carbon battle: understand the new global supply chain.



The Carbon Footprint of Everything breaks items down by the amount of carbon they produce, creating a calorie guide for the carbon-conscious. With... Read more

Notes on Resistance

By: David Barsamian & Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Noam Chomsky dissects the multiple crises facing humankind and the planet and provides a road map for resistance.In this completely original set of interviews between the legendary duo of Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, the two confront topics such as the pandemic, the wealth gap made worse because of the pandemic, climate destruction, the... Read more

A Trillion Trees

By: Fred Pearce

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

With vivid, observant reporting, veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce transports listeners to the remote cloud forests of Ecuador, the remains of a forest civilization in Nigeria, a mystifying mountain peak in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and the boreal forests of western Canada and the United States, where devastating wildfires are... Read more

The Modern Bestiary

By: Joanna Bagniewska

Narrated by: Samara Naeymi

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the familiar to the improbable, the gross to the endearing, The Modern Bestiary is a compendium of curious creatures. It includes both animals that have made headlines and those you’ve probably never heard of, such as skin-eating caecilians, harp sponges, or zombie worms—also known as bone-eating snot flowers. Arranged by elements, Earth,... Read more

The Future Is Now

By: Bob McDonald

Narrated by: Bob McDonald

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*

Is a global pandemic what it took to show us that saving our planet is possible?

In the absence of motorized boats and gondolas, Venice’s waters have returned to a sparkling blue color. Deer have been spotted roaming cities in Italy, and mountain goats recently took over a small seaside town in Wales. Taking advantage of... Read more

The Green Mister Rogers

By: Sara Lindey & Jason King

Narrated by: Kathy Bell Denton

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Fred Rogers was an international celebrity. He was a pioneer in children's television, an advocate for families, and a multimedia artist and performer. He wrote the television scripts and music, performed puppetry, sang, hosted, and directed Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for more than thirty years. Rogers' direct, slow, gentle, and empathic... Read more

Fen, Bog and Swamp

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction, the 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award, and the NEIBA 2023 New England Book Award*

From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, this riveting deep dive into the history of our wetlands and what their systematic... Read more