English Environmental History

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    • The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
    • By: Dan Flores
    • Narrated by: Clark Cornell
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 377 ratings
    • Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe....

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    • The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
    • By: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters....

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    • A History
    • By: Sunil Amrith
    • Narrated by: Esh Alladi
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs.

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    • An Environmental History of the American West (Environment and Region in the American West)
    • By: Sara Dant
    • Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Losing Eden award-winning historian Sara Dant debunks the myth of the American West as “Eden” and instead embraces a more realistic and complex understanding of a region that has been inhabited and altered by people for tens of thousands of years....

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    • The Making of an American Sea
    • By: Jack E. Davis
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 443 ratings
    • Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction - the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic....

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    • How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
    • By: Marcia Bjornerud
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth's deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future....

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    • 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
    • By: Henry Gee
    • Narrated by: Henry Gee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • In the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester—An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story....

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,986 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • The Southern Plains in the 1930s
    • By: Donald Worster
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • In the mid-1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history....

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    • The History and Future of Food
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Data-based and rigorously researched, How to Feed the World is an indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its foodand a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planet.

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    • A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice
    • By: Daniel Stone
    • Narrated by: Daniel Stone
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer comes the untold story of Alice Hamilton, a trailblazing doctor and public health activist who took on the booming auto industry—and the deadly invention of leaded gasoline, which would poison millions of people across America.

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    • How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,737 ratings
    • The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....

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    • A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
    • By: Annie Proulx
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment—by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change....

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    • Essays on War and Climate Change
    • By: Roy Scranton
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • We're Doomed, Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation....

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    • An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
    • By: Bathsheba Demuth
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape....

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    • Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
    • By: Dorceta E. Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, Toxic Communities examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards....

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,339 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

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    • New York City and the Catskills (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
    • By: David Stradling
    • Narrated by: Paul E Silbermann
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • For over 200 years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process....

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