Environment & Nature audiobooks

Parásitos

By: Carl Zimmer

Narrated by: Roger Vidal

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Desde las junglas húmedas de Costa Rica hasta el fétido entorno de las zonas rebeldes del sur de Sudán, Carl Zimmer nos guía a través de un viaje por el universo de los parásitos, un mundo en el que habitamos sin ser conscientes. Así nos descubre no solo la forma de vida más exitosa del planeta, sino aquella que da forma a los ecosistemas y es... Read more

The Disaster-Ready Home

By: Creek Stewart

Narrated by: Creek Stewart

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A complete, step-by-step manual for safely sheltering-in-place at home so you are prepared for any disaster or disease.

If a disaster forces you to shelter in place, do you think you have everything you need to safely and comfortably stay put in your home? If the answer is no, The Disaster-Ready Home will help you create a safe, well-stocked... Read more

Beyond Possible

By: Nims Purja

Narrated by: Shridhar Solanki

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Nepali climber Nims Purja is the first man ever to summit all fourteen of the world's 8000 meter "Death Zone" peaks. He did so in less than seven months, breaking the previous record of seven years. In this spellbinding memoir , tied to the acclaimed Netflix documentary "14 Peaks," Purja reveals the man behind the climbs, explaining how his... Read more

Waldgeräusche mit und ohne Musik (XXL Bundle)

By: Yella A. Deeken

Narrated by: Naturgeräusche aus aller Welt

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Waldgeräusche mit und ohne Musik, Gesamtlaufzeit: Über 12 Stunden! Erlebe friedvolle Waldgeräusche in exzellenter Audioqualität. Die Aufnahmen in Ultra-HD wurden mit hochmodernem Equipment in den Wäldern Europas (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Schweden, Italien) aufgenommen. Waldgeräusche können beruhigende Empfindungen auslösen, die... Read more

Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals

By: Roanne van Voorst

Narrated by: Eileen Stevens

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman’s bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of a future where animal consumption is a thing of the past.

Though increasing numbers of people know that eating meat is detrimental to our planet’s... Read more

Awakening Artemis

By: Vanessa Chakour

Narrated by: Vanessa Chakour

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A healing resource that blends practical plant-based knowledge with spiritual reconnection to show how respect for and communion with our natural world guides us toward healing.
 

Combining Vanessa's story of her own healing journey with practical plant-based knowledge, Awakening Artemis is rooted in the belief that healing happens through... Read more

On Time and Water

By: Andri Snær Magnason

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A few years ago, Andri Snaer Magnason, one of Iceland's most beloved writers and public intellectuals, was asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn't writing about the greatest crisis mankind has faced. Magnason demurred: he wasn't a specialist, it wasn't his field. But the scientist persisted: "If you cannot understand our scientific... Read more

White Pine

By: Andrew Vietze

Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of the ubiquitous pine tree is wrapped up with the history of early America—and in the hands of a gifted storyteller becomes a compelling listen, almost an adventure story. Read more

The Great Fire of London

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Doug Greene

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Great Fire of London was a massive fire in the ominous year of 1666, which destroyed the homes of more than 80% of the city’s inhabitants, which was around 80,000 people back then. In this guide, we will go over how the fire most likely started, why it took such a toll on the London population, and why it kept growing without them being able... Read more

Not Working

By: Graham Field

Narrated by: Graham Field

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The summer wine didn’t last, it’s time to open the autumn whisky…Prepare to enter a new season on the side of a secluded valley in an idyllic Bulgarian backwater.
Graham Field’s lifetime of curiosity to see where the road goes, now led him to discover where it stops. Not Working is a captivating, unconventional and honest account of one man... Read more

A Thousand Trails Home

By: Seth Kantner

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunningly lyrical firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou, A Thousand Trails Home encompasses the historical past and present day, revealing the fragile intertwined lives of people and animals surviving on an uncertain landscape of cultural and climatic change sweeping the Alaskan Arctic. Author Seth... Read more

The World is Blue

By: Sylvia A. Earle

Narrated by: Sheree Wichard

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just fifty years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.



In recent decades we've learned more about the... Read more

Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle

By: Lloyd Alter

Narrated by: Cherlandra Estrada

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiency Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff. The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon... Read more

Vortex Street

By: Adam G. Fleming

Narrated by: Adam G. Fleming

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In Vortex Street, World traveler and author Adam G. Fleming shares poems and humorous flash fiction from his travels to Thailand, Congo, Belize, Egypt and beyond. Between poems and stories, the author's son, JJ Fleming, provides sick beats for relaxing moments as you think about what you're thinking about. Has there ever been a better audio... Read more

The Environmentalist's Dilemma

By: Arno Kopecky

Narrated by: Marvin Kaye

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Ronald Wright, Rebecca Solnit, and Yuval Noah Harari, comes a compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity’s latest and greatest calamity In The Environmentalist’s Dilemma, award-winning journalist Arno Kopecky zeroes in on the core predicament of our times: the planet may be dying, but humanity’s doing better than... Read more

Saving American Beach

By: Heidi Tyline King

Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This heartfelt picture book biography, adapted for audio, tells the story of MaVynee Betsch, an African American opera singer turned environmentalist and the legacy she preserved.

MaVynee loved going to the beach. But in the days of Jim Crow, she couldn't just go to any beach--most of the beaches in Jacksonville were for whites only. Knowing... Read more

Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the irrepressible author of Trout Bum and The View from Rat Lake comes an engaging, humorous, often profound examination of life's greatest mysteries: sex, death, and fly-fishing.



John Gierach's quest takes us from his quiet home water (an ordinary, run-of-the-mill trout stream where fly-fishing can be a casual affair) to Utah's famous Green... Read more

Earth in Upheaval

By: Immanuel Velikovsky

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this epochal book, Immanuel Velikovsky, one of the great scientists of modern times, puts the complete histories of our Earth and of humanity on a new basis. He presents the results of his ten-year-long interdisciplinary research in an easily understandable, even entertaining manner. Inspite—or even because—of the disgraceful hostility,... Read more

Where Bigfoot Walks

By: Robert Michael Pyle

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for the film The Dark Divide starring David Cross and Debra Messing, one of America's most esteemed natural history writers takes to the hills in search of Bigfoot—and finds the wildness within ourselves.



Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to investigate the legends of Sasquatch, Yale–trained ecologist Dr. Robert Pyle treks into the... Read more

The Ecology of Everyday Things

By: Mark Everard

Narrated by: David Vickery

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For many people, ecosystems may be a remote concept, yet we eat, drink, breathe and interface with them in every moment of our lives. In this engaging textbook, ecosystems scientist Dr. Mark Everard considers a diversity of "everyday things", including fascinating facts about their ecological origins: from the tea we drink, to the things we... Read more

From Outside

By: Kollibri terre Sonnenblume

Narrated by: Kollibri terre Sonnenblume

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of essays from 2016-2021, the author explores a variety of themes including the environment, war, agriculture, settler colonialism, racism, patriarchy, media criticism, green energy, collapse and the nature of civilization itself. Sylistically, the selections vary from reporting to analysis to personal story telling. They... Read more

Ansichten der Natur

By: Alexander von Humboldt

Narrated by: Norbert Wendel

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander von Humboldt zählt zu den bedeutendsten Naturforschern der neueren Geschichte. Seine Forschungsreisen führten Humboldt nach Lateinamerika, in die USA sowie nach Zentralasien. Die Resultate seiner wissenschaftlichen Studien führten zu Fortschritten in den unterschiedlichsten wissenschaftlichen Teildisziplinen. Wissenschaftliche... Read more

Bird Song and Nectar in the Silences

By: Lisa Lopresti

Narrated by: Lisa Lopresti

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A streamlined book of comtemporary poetry, beautifully crafted, flowing and engaging. Pauline Sewards, a wonderful poet whose most recent collection of poems is 'Spirograph' with Burning Eye says reading the poems 'reminds me of going into a shop full of colourful, gauzy scarves with a variety of patterns. The poems are sensual; they sing with... Read more

Nieuwe technologie; Voice assistants

By: Peter de Ruiter

Narrated by: Peter de Ruiter

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Praten met apparaten doen we al langer – denk aan Siri van Apple – maar sinds enige tijd verschijnen er ook zogeheten "smart speakers" op de salontafel, in de keuken en op het nachtkastje. Daar zit een "voice assistant" in. Je kunt ze met je stem tot leven wekken en opdrachten geven: muziek spelen, de lichten dimmen, het nieuws voorlezen,... Read more