Water Environment

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    • Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
    • By: Erica Gies
    • Narrated by: Linda Jones
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • As new climate disasters remind us every day, our world is not stable—and it is changing in ways that expose the deep dysfunction of our relationship with water. But as we grapple with extreme weather, a hard truth is emerging: our development is actually exacerbating our problems....

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    • Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor
    • By: Gerald H. Pollack
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • World renowned scientist, Dr. Gerald Pollack, takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity - providing simple explanations for common everyday phenomena, which you have inevitably seen but not really understood....

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    • Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
    • By: Jerry Dennis
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • If fresh water is to be treasured, the Great Lakes are the mother lode. No bodies of water can compare to them. One of them, Superior, is the largest lake on earth....

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    • By: Andri Snær Magnason, Lytton Smith - translator
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Based on interviews and advice from leading glacial, ocean, climate, and geographical scientists, and interwoven with personal, historical, and mythological stories, this book is a rich and compelling work of narrative nonfiction that illustrates the reality of climate change....

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    • The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
    • By: Charles Fishman
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 478 ratings
    • As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this delightful narrative excursion, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways....

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    • Into the Future of Water in the West
    • By: Heather Hansman
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Fights over the Green River's water, and what's going to happen to it in the future, are longstanding, intractable, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier, and more people depend on the river with each passing year....

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    • Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
    • By: Jeff Goodell
    • Narrated by: Ian Ferguson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 731 ratings
    • Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live....

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    • Life and Death Along the Colorado River
    • By: David Owen
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 414 ratings
    • The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland....

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    • Hurricane Sandy, the Sailing Ship Bounty, and a Courageous Rescue at Sea
    • By: Gregory A. Freeman
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Crewed by an eclectic team of seafarers, the Bounty was led by Robin Walbridge, their highly respected captain with decades at the helm, whose actions - sometimes questionable - decided the fate of his ship and crew....

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    • A World at the Water’s Edge
    • By: Susan Hand Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • An ancient, and vital, part of nature's ecosystem, seaweed is now emerging as an increasingly important source of food in a world faced with diminishing natural resources. Acclaimed nature writer Susan Hand Shetterly opens a window into the world of this fascinating organism....

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    • There Are Two Easy Ways to Die in the Desert: Thirst and Drowning
    • By: Craig Childs
    • Narrated by: Craig Childs
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • Deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to seasoned explorers. Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West, and his treks through arid lands in search of water reveal the natural world at its most extreme....

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    • A History of Water and Humankind
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Elixir spans five thousand years, from the beginnings of civilization to the parched American Sun Belt of today....

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    • Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future
    • By: Peter Gleick
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Beville
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In The Three Ages of Water, Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our relationship to this precious resource....

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    • Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
    • By: Seth M. Siegel
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities....

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    • The American West and Its Disappearing Water
    • By: Marc Reisner
    • Narrated by: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
    • Length: 27 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 569 ratings
    • The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue....

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    • The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane
    • By: John Kretschmer
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A "normal" Caribbean hurricane travels from east to west, but Lenny was anything but normal. Spawned south of Cuba in 1999, this late-season storm defied all predictions by moving steadily east toward the Leeward Islands....

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    • Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont
    • By: Robert Bilott
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Mark Ruffalo - Introduction
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 412 ratings
    • An eye-opening, riveting true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous, unregulated chemical PFOA, uncovering a history of environmental contamination that affects virtually every person on the planet....

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    • The Surprising Science That Shows How Being near, in, on, or under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do
    • By: Wallace J. Nichols, Céline Cousteau - foreword
    • Narrated by: Wallace J. Nichols
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 501 ratings
    • A landmark book by marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols on the remarkable effects of water on our health and well-being....

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    • How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water
    • By: Peter Annin
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Veteran journalist Peter Annin shows that wastewater has become a surprising weapon in America's war against water scarcity.

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    • In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
    • By: Susan Casey
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 703 ratings
    • From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out....

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