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Environmental Science Audiobooks

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    Apocalypse Never

    Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

    by Michael Shellenberger ...
    Narrated by Stephen Graybill ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 18 min

    Now a National Bestseller!Climate change is real but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem.Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Spoon-Fed

    Why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong

    by Tim Spector ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    Brought to you by Penguin.We are all bombarded with advice about what we should and shouldn’t eat, and new scientific discoveries are announced every day. Yet the more we are told about nutrition, the less we seem to understand.Through his pioneering scientific research, Tim Spector has been shocked to discover how little good evidence there is for many of our most deep-rooted ideas about food. In ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Chernobyl

    History of a Tragedy

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 35 min

    Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' - Viv Groskop, ObserverThe gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    All We Can Save

    Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

    Narrated by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, Sophia Bush, Kimberly Drew, America Ferrera, Jane Fonda, Ilana Glazer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus0, Janet Mock1, Bahni Turpin2, Alfre Woodard3 ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 5 min

    Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. While it’s clear that women and ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The World in a Grain

    The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization

    by Vince Beiser ...
    Narrated by Will Damron ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 49 min

    A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardThe gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives.After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Command and Control

    by Eric Schlosser ...
    Narrated by Scott Brick ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 33 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Command and Control, a ground-breaking account of the management of nuclear weapons from Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation. Read by the award-winning narrator Scott Brick.A ground-breaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Humanity's Moment

    A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope

    by Joelle Gergis ...
    Narrated by Casey Withoos ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 24 min

    A personal call to action from an Australian IPCC author. Acknowledging that the world as we know it is coming apart is an act of courage. If I live to look back at this troubled time, I want to say that I did all that I could, that I was on the right side of history. The question is, do you want to be part of the legacy that restores our faith in humanity? When climate scientist JoElle Gergis set ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    On Freedom

    Four Songs of Care and Constraint

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 5 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICKSo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Chernobyl Prayer

    Penguin Modern Classics

    by Svetlana Alexievich ...
    Narrated by Andrew Byron, Sasha Alexis ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 18 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature- A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised text -In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich spent years ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    What Your Food Ate

    How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim our Health

    by David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé ...
    Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 53 min

    Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us. The long-running partnerships through which crops and ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Saving Us

    A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

    by Katharine Hayhoe ...
    Narrated by Katharine Hayhoe ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” (The New York Times).Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators on climate change” by The New York Times, Katharine ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Novacene

    The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

    by James Lovelock ...
    Narrated by Roy McMillan ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 20 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Novacene written by James Lovelock, read by Roy McMillan.James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Creation

    An Appeal to Save Life on Earth

    by E.O. Wilson ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    Called "one of the greatest men alive" by the Times of London, E. O. Wilson proposes an historic partnership between scientists and religious leaders to preserve Earth's rapidly vanishing biodiversity. ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Koala

    A Life in Trees

    by Danielle Clode ...
    Narrated by Jessica Douglas-Henry ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 33 min

    An immersive, entertaining journey into the hidden life of the koala, revealing what life is really like up in the trees Despite their iconic status and celebrity, koalas remain something of a mystery. Often affectionate in captivity, they seek out human assistance when in need of water or care yet can also be fierce and belligerent. They are beloved worldwide and feature in popular children's ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Atoms and Ashes

    From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 8 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now considered one of the costliest nuclear disasters ever. But Fukushima was not the first, and it was not ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Seaweed Revolution

    Uncovering the Secrets of Seaweed and How It Can Save the Planet

    by Vincent Doumeizel ...
    Narrated by Gerard Dimiglio ...

    Unabridged

    428 hours

    Of all the unexploited resources in the world, seaweed is the greatest. Without it, there would be no crustaceans, nor fish. The ocean would be a desert without carbon or oxygen, and half of our atmosphere's oxygen would be gone. The most recent research tells us that seaweed is one possible solution for our future on the planet. It could feed human beings, reduce plastic pollution, absorb enough ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Swamplands

    Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat

    by Edward Struzik ...
    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 37 min

    In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive charm and magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into a verdant Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell. Further south, cypress branches hang low over dismal swamps. Places like these-collectively known as swamplands or peatlands-often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. They are as ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Future We Choose

    'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG

    by Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac ...
    Narrated by Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 47 min

    'One of the most inspiring books I have ever read' YUVAL NOAH HARARI'Figueres and Rivett-Carnac dare to tell us how our response can create a better, fairer world' NAOMI KLEIN'Inspirational, compassionate and clear. The time to read this is NOW' MARK RUFFALONamed a Guardian Best Audiobook of 2020, this optimistic and agenda-setting look at the climate crisis is perfect for listeners of Rutger ... Read more

    $83.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Who Cares Wins

    Reasons For Optimism in Our Changing World

    by Lily Cole ...
    Narrated by Lily Cole ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 30 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible.We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the extinction of countless species, and Neoliberalism has led to a destructive divide in wealth and a polarisation of ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood

    by Richard Fortey ...
    Narrated by Mike Grady ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 32 min

    From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside to tell the full story of the British landscape.‘The woods are the great beauty of this country… A fine forest-like beech wood far more beautiful than anything else which we have seen in its ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Aerial Warfare

    The Battle for the Skies

    by Frank Ledwidge ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 42 min

    Aerial warfare has dominated western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping look at the history of air warfare, introducing the major battles, crises, and controversies where air power has taken center stage, and the changes in technology and air power capabilities over time. ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Dominion

    by Paul Lussier ...

    Unabridged

    Brought to you by Penguin.A landmark account of the race to save the planet, by one of the world's foremost experts on climate scienceAt the current rate of carbon pollution, we are we are likely to see the first wave of global catastrophes as a result of CO2 levels within the next twenty to twenty-five years. As a result, a group of scientists from around the world, backed by billionaires, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth?

    by Professor Anthony Barnosky, Professor Elizabeth Hadly ...
    Narrated by Katharine Mangold, Nick Landrum ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 52 min

    What happens when vast population growth endangers the world’s food supplies? Or our water? Our energy needs, climate, or environment? Or the planet’s biodiversity? What happens if these all become critical at once? Just what is our future?In End Game, world-renowned scientists Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly explain the growing threats to humanity as the planet edges towards a resource war ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Through A Window

    by Jane Goodall ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours

    From the world-famous expert on chimpanzees - the powerfully compelling sequel to the international bestseller IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: 'An instant animal classic' TimeEquipped with little more than a notebook, binoculars, and her fascination with wildlife, Jane braved a realm of unknowns to give the world a remarkable window into humankind's closest living relatives. On the shores of Lake Tanganyika ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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