Bestsellers
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What If We Get It Right?
- Visions of Climate Futures
- By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ayisha Siddiqa, Jacqueline Woodson, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures....
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I almost want to categorize this as sci-fi/fantasy
- By Melanie Farley on 12-16-24
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Carbon
- The Book of Life
- By: Paul Hawken
- Narrated by: Peter Coyote
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A journey into the world of carbon, the most versatile element on the planet, by the New York Times bestselling author Paul Hawken.
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I am deeper because of this….
- By Susan C. on 04-23-25
By: Paul Hawken
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How Can I Help?
- Saving Nature with Your Yard
- By: Douglas W. Tallamy
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In How Can I Help, Doug Tallamy—a New York Times bestselling author and the cofounder of the nonprofit Homegrown National Park—gives his expert answers to questions commonly asked over the course of his career as an environmental advocate.
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The author’s ability to bring a topic with various complicated topics to a level that was understandable but still thorough.
- By D. Martin on 04-18-25
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The New Climate War
- The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
- By: Michael E. Mann
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet....
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A good overview of the status of Climate Politics
- By Kathleen M. Lee on 02-15-21
By: Michael E. Mann
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Into the Storm
- Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
- By: Tristram Korten
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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The true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and-rescue operation that shines a light on the elite Coast Guard swimmers trained for the most dangerous ocean missions....
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Just average
- By Rickmeister on 03-13-20
By: Tristram Korten
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All We Can Save
- Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
- By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward....
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Saved My Life
- By Taylor Seamount on 11-07-21
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, and others
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What If We Get It Right?
- Visions of Climate Futures
- By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ayisha Siddiqa, Jacqueline Woodson, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures....
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I almost want to categorize this as sci-fi/fantasy
- By Melanie Farley on 12-16-24
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Carbon
- The Book of Life
- By: Paul Hawken
- Narrated by: Peter Coyote
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A journey into the world of carbon, the most versatile element on the planet, by the New York Times bestselling author Paul Hawken.
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I am deeper because of this….
- By Susan C. on 04-23-25
By: Paul Hawken
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How Can I Help?
- Saving Nature with Your Yard
- By: Douglas W. Tallamy
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In How Can I Help, Doug Tallamy—a New York Times bestselling author and the cofounder of the nonprofit Homegrown National Park—gives his expert answers to questions commonly asked over the course of his career as an environmental advocate.
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The author’s ability to bring a topic with various complicated topics to a level that was understandable but still thorough.
- By D. Martin on 04-18-25
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The New Climate War
- The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
- By: Michael E. Mann
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet....
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A good overview of the status of Climate Politics
- By Kathleen M. Lee on 02-15-21
By: Michael E. Mann
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Into the Storm
- Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
- By: Tristram Korten
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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The true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and-rescue operation that shines a light on the elite Coast Guard swimmers trained for the most dangerous ocean missions....
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Just average
- By Rickmeister on 03-13-20
By: Tristram Korten
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All We Can Save
- Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
- By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward....
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Saved My Life
- By Taylor Seamount on 11-07-21
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, and others
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Not the End of the World
- How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
- By: Hannah Ritchie
- Narrated by: Hannah Ritchie PhD
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, and that we should reconsider having children....
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Environmental Sustainability Analysis
- By RM on 04-16-24
By: Hannah Ritchie
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Under a White Sky
- The Nature of the Future
- By: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Sixth Extinction and Field Notes from a Catastrophe returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment in Under a White Sky....
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Feel Sorry For Your Grandchildren
- By Allen Moody on 02-28-21
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Fire Weather
- A True Story from a Hotter World
- By: John Vaillant
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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From the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce comes a stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind....
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Fire and Brimstone
- By Barbara J Williams on 01-06-24
By: John Vaillant
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- By: David Wallace-Wells
- Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it....
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Don’t read if you have depressive tendencies.
- By Ricky on 03-17-19
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The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- By: Jake Bittle
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global warming worsens over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world, fleeing famine and rising seas.
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Where we're headed
- By Dr. Stuart A. Blair on 03-09-23
By: Jake Bittle
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Apocalypse Never
- Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
- By: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Climate change is real, but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem....
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Environmentalist with integrity!
- By Wayne on 07-01-20
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming....
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GREAT Book with a Narrator Who's Falling Asleep
- By aaron on 08-02-20
By: Lewis Dartnell
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The Earth Transformed
- An Untold History
- By: Peter Frankopan
- Narrated by: Peter Frankopan
- Length: 29 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand....
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A Thoughtful History of A Complex Phenomenon
- By Lucy A. Pithecus on 04-21-23
By: Peter Frankopan
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Hope Dies Last
- Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
- By: Alan Weisman
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Alan Weisman
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A remedy to climate anxiety by one of the most important voices on humanity’s relationship with the Earth, Hope Dies Last fills a crucial gap in the global conversation.
By: Alan Weisman
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The Blue Machine
- How the Ocean Works
- By: Helen Czerski
- Narrated by: Helen Czerski
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski explores the “ocean engine”—the physics behind the ocean’s systems—and why it matters....
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Pay to be lectured at
- By J. Luvmour on 10-12-23
By: Helen Czerski
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Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
- By: Thich Nhat Hanh
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, True Dedication
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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We face a potent intersection of crises: ecological destruction, rising inequality, racial injustice, and the lasting impacts of a devastating pandemic. The situation is beyond urgent....
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Great Book. Hard For Me To Focus On Audible Though.
- By Cameron Catanzano on 02-15-22
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
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The Heat Will Kill You First
- Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
- By: Jeff Goodell
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis.
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Eminently Skipable for Climate Science Believers
- By Chad on 07-15-23
By: Jeff Goodell
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- By: Bill Gates
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions....
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Be curious, not furious
- By Axel Merk on 02-20-21
By: Bill Gates
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Speed & Scale
- An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
- By: John Doerr, Ryan Panchadsaram
- Narrated by: John Doerr, Sundar Pichai, Margot Brown, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it.” Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem....
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Most Important and Worst Audiobook ever!
- By Amazon Customer on 12-17-21
By: John Doerr, and others
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A Life on Our Planet
- My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
- By: Sir David Attenborough, Jonnie Hughes
- Narrated by: Sir David Attenborough
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian Sir David Attenborough shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future....
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Engaging, powerful, hopeful, visionary.
- By K. Stark on 10-15-20
By: Sir David Attenborough, and others
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False Alarm
- How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
- By: Bjorn Lomborg
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong. It points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.
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Stop climate change panic!
- By Wayne on 07-16-20
By: Bjorn Lomborg
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The End of the River
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to climate-change-inspired threats, it is rising sea levels we hear most about. But if the oceans are, as Herman Melville put it, “the tide-beating heart of the Earth”, rivers are its circulatory system....
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Stunning Informative and Scarry as Hell
- By Dorn Cranert on 05-06-22
By: Simon Winchester
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Drawdown
- The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
- By: Paul Hawken - editor
- Narrated by: Aven Shore
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world.
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Great overview of all the pieces needed!
- By MySFKitchen on 09-09-24
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Less Is More
- How Degrowth Will Save the World
- By: Jason Hickel
- Narrated by: Ben Crystal, Clifford Samuel
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause....
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Interesting
- By SEB24 on 04-13-25
By: Jason Hickel
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- By: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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Excellent science based
- By Russ on 05-08-21
By: Steven E. Koonin
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The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue
- A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street
- By: Mike Tidwell
- Narrated by: Brandon Pollock
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2023, author and activist Mike Tidwell decided to keep a record for a full year of the growing impacts of climate change on his one urban block right on the border with Washington, DC.
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This book made me want to be with trees and protect our climate
- By Molly on 04-11-25
By: Mike Tidwell
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Living Planet
- The Web of Life on Earth
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A new fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, Living Planet....
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A treasure
- By Theresa on 06-16-23
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American Oasis
- Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
- By: Kyle Paoletta
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Iconic American cities surrounded by desert and rust. Teeming metropolises that seem to exist independently of the seemingly inhospitable and arid landscape that surrounds them, belying the rich insight they offer into American stories of migration, industry, bloodshed, and rebirth.
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Historical context for SW sprawl
- By Jesse P on 02-07-25
By: Kyle Paoletta
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Fresh Banana Leaves
- Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
- By: Jessica Hernandez Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors....
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Great research, little awareness or viable solutions
- By Nyrel Cederstrom on 07-19-22
New releases
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How Can I Help?
- Saving Nature with Your Yard
- By: Douglas W. Tallamy
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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With the publication of Bringing Nature Home, Douglas Tallamy revealed the critical role native plants play in attracting beneficial insects—and ushered in what is widely considered one of the most consequential movements in gardening. With Nature’s Best Hope, Tallamy expanded his audience from gardeners to homeowners with a passionate advocacy that detailed how everyone with a yard can make a positive environmental impact.
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The author’s ability to bring a topic with various complicated topics to a level that was understandable but still thorough.
- By D. Martin on 04-18-25
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Hope Dies Last
- Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
- By: Alan Weisman
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Alan Weisman
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A remedy to climate anxiety by one of the most important voices on humanity’s relationship with the Earth, Hope Dies Last fills a crucial gap in the global conversation: Having reached a point of no return in our climate confrontation, how do we feel, behave, act, plan, and dream as we approach a future decidedly different from what we had expected?
By: Alan Weisman
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Six Minutes to Winter
- Nuclear War and How to Avoid It
- By: Mark Lynas
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The world is currently closer to superpower conflict than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. World War III is a real possibility, and with 12,000 warheads in the arsenals of more than half a dozen countries, we are standing on a nuclear knife edge. Despite receiving very little attention, nuclear war is a far greater threat to humanity's immediate survival than climate change. While climate heating threatens humanity over many decades, nuclear war could destroy civilisation in just a few hours.
By: Mark Lynas
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A Billion Butterflies
- A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory
- By: Dr. Jagadish Shukla
- Narrated by: Shahjehan Khan
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Consider a world without weather prediction. How would we know when to evacuate communities ahead of fires or floods, or figure out what to wear tomorrow? Until 40 years ago, we couldn’t forecast weather conditions beyond ten days. Renowned climate scientist Dr. Jagadish Shukla is largely to thank for modern weather forecasting. Born in rural India with no electricity, plumbing, or formal schools, he attended classes that were held in a cow shed. Shukla grew up amid turmoil: overwhelming monsoons, devastating droughts, and unpredictable crop yields.
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Atomic Dreams
- The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy
- By: Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
- Narrated by: Maria Marquis, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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On June 21, 2016, Pacific Gas & Electric Company announced a plan to shutter California’s last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, in 2025. The plan was hailed by environmental groups and politicians around the country. Then, suddenly, the state’s Democratic establishment reversed the decision, and in 2024 the Biden-Harris administration awarded the plant $1.1 billion in credits to extend its life. What happened in between? In Atomic Dreams, journalist and lifelong environmentalist Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow unearths the surprising answers—and the deep-seated conflicts behind them.
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A Darwinian Survival Guide
- Hope for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Salvatore J. Agosta, Daniel R. Brooks
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite efforts to sustain civilization, humanity faces existential threats from overpopulation, globalized trade and travel, urbanization, and global climate change. In A Darwinian Survival Guide, Daniel Brooks and Salvatore Agosta offer a novel—and hopeful—perspective on how to meet these tremendous challenges by changing the discourse from sustainability to survival. Darwinian evolution, the world’s only theory of survival, is the means by which the biosphere has persisted and renewed itself following past environmental perturbations, and it has never failed, they explain.
By: Salvatore J. Agosta, and others
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How Can I Help?
- Saving Nature with Your Yard
- By: Douglas W. Tallamy
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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With the publication of Bringing Nature Home, Douglas Tallamy revealed the critical role native plants play in attracting beneficial insects—and ushered in what is widely considered one of the most consequential movements in gardening. With Nature’s Best Hope, Tallamy expanded his audience from gardeners to homeowners with a passionate advocacy that detailed how everyone with a yard can make a positive environmental impact.
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The author’s ability to bring a topic with various complicated topics to a level that was understandable but still thorough.
- By D. Martin on 04-18-25
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Hope Dies Last
- Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
- By: Alan Weisman
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Alan Weisman
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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A remedy to climate anxiety by one of the most important voices on humanity’s relationship with the Earth, Hope Dies Last fills a crucial gap in the global conversation: Having reached a point of no return in our climate confrontation, how do we feel, behave, act, plan, and dream as we approach a future decidedly different from what we had expected?
By: Alan Weisman
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Six Minutes to Winter
- Nuclear War and How to Avoid It
- By: Mark Lynas
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The world is currently closer to superpower conflict than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. World War III is a real possibility, and with 12,000 warheads in the arsenals of more than half a dozen countries, we are standing on a nuclear knife edge. Despite receiving very little attention, nuclear war is a far greater threat to humanity's immediate survival than climate change. While climate heating threatens humanity over many decades, nuclear war could destroy civilisation in just a few hours.
By: Mark Lynas
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A Billion Butterflies
- A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory
- By: Dr. Jagadish Shukla
- Narrated by: Shahjehan Khan
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Consider a world without weather prediction. How would we know when to evacuate communities ahead of fires or floods, or figure out what to wear tomorrow? Until 40 years ago, we couldn’t forecast weather conditions beyond ten days. Renowned climate scientist Dr. Jagadish Shukla is largely to thank for modern weather forecasting. Born in rural India with no electricity, plumbing, or formal schools, he attended classes that were held in a cow shed. Shukla grew up amid turmoil: overwhelming monsoons, devastating droughts, and unpredictable crop yields.
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Atomic Dreams
- The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy
- By: Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
- Narrated by: Maria Marquis, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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On June 21, 2016, Pacific Gas & Electric Company announced a plan to shutter California’s last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, in 2025. The plan was hailed by environmental groups and politicians around the country. Then, suddenly, the state’s Democratic establishment reversed the decision, and in 2024 the Biden-Harris administration awarded the plant $1.1 billion in credits to extend its life. What happened in between? In Atomic Dreams, journalist and lifelong environmentalist Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow unearths the surprising answers—and the deep-seated conflicts behind them.
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A Darwinian Survival Guide
- Hope for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Salvatore J. Agosta, Daniel R. Brooks
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite efforts to sustain civilization, humanity faces existential threats from overpopulation, globalized trade and travel, urbanization, and global climate change. In A Darwinian Survival Guide, Daniel Brooks and Salvatore Agosta offer a novel—and hopeful—perspective on how to meet these tremendous challenges by changing the discourse from sustainability to survival. Darwinian evolution, the world’s only theory of survival, is the means by which the biosphere has persisted and renewed itself following past environmental perturbations, and it has never failed, they explain.
By: Salvatore J. Agosta, and others
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A Barrister for the Earth
- Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future
- By: Monica Feria-Tinta
- Narrated by: Monica Feria-Tinta
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A revolution is taking place. Around the world, ordinary people are turning to courts seeking justice for environmental damage. At the forefront of this movement, pioneering barrister Monica Feria-Tinta advocates not only for the people fighting for their homes and livelihoods, but also for those who have no voice: for rivers, forests and endangered species.
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Dimming the Sun
- The Urgent Case for Geoengineering
- By: Thomas Ramge
- Narrated by: Rob Greenbaum
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Earth stands at a tipping point. As we fail to curtail emissions fast enough, our planet stares down a cascade of imminent, catastrophic, and irreversible disaster triggered by climate change. Yet a potent technology already exists to buy us more time: solar geoengineering. Through methods such as atmospheric aerosols, human-generated cirrus clouds, and solar sails, we humans can—at least in the short term—slow the Earth's warming. Should we?
By: Thomas Ramge
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Landing the Paris Climate Agreement
- How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next
- By: Todd Stern
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change was one of the most difficult and hopeful achievements of the twenty-first century: 195 nations finally agreed, after twenty years of trying, to establish an ambitious, operational regime to address one of the greatest civilizational challenges of our time. In Landing the Paris Climate Agreement, Todd Stern provides an engaging account from inside the rooms where it happened: the full, charged, seven-year story of how the Paris Agreement came to be, following an arc from Copenhagen, to Durban, to the secret US-China climate deal in 2014, to Paris.
By: Todd Stern
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Climate Hope
- Stories of Action in an Age of Global Crisis
- By: David Geselbracht
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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In Climate Hope, journalist David Geselbracht blends in-depth research, expert interviews, and on-the-ground reporting in multiple countries, revealing remarkable efforts to identify the causes and impacts of climate change—and devise crucial ways to address them. The scale of the challenge is clear in the range of fields he covers, from glaciology and climate science to law and diplomacy. But in drawing these approaches together, he shares stories of hope, awe, and wonder that encourage us to confront this long-term, world-warping phenomenon with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.
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Gaia Wakes
- Earth’s Emergent Consciousness in an Age of Environmental Devastation
- By: Topher McDougal
- Narrated by: Topher McDougal
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Gaia Wakes presents a compelling new framework for understanding the past, present, and future of our planet. Starting from a strong foundation in economics and drawing on a vast range of multidisciplinary scholarship, Topher McDougal explores the possibility of a fifth transition towards an upgraded Earth: the development of a technologically enabled planetary brain capable of coordinating ecological functions and peering far into the future and universe.
By: Topher McDougal
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Burn Fuel Better
- From Helpless to Hopeful in the Race Against Climate Change
- By: Don Owens
- Narrated by: Kevin Sawhill
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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Burn Fuel Better will shed light on some of the unintentional mistakes we are making to address climate change and suggest practical solutions we can make to minimize and possibly reverse the impact — solutions that can be fully implemented today, not 20-30 years in the future, when it will be too late. With an accidental discovery of lowering certain types of emissions from diesel engines, this new way of burning fuel minimizes black carbon from entering the atmosphere and adds life-sustaining oxygen.
By: Don Owens