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Natural Disasters Audiobooks

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    The Uninhabitable Earth

    A Story of the Future

    by David Wallace-Wells ...
    Narrated by David Wallace-Wells ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.It is worse, much worse, than you think.The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.Over the past decades, the term ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    42 Grad (gekürzt)

    by Wolf Harlander ...
    Narrated by Uve Teschner ...

    Abridged

    10 hours 41 min

    Kein Wasser. Nicht in den Leitungen. Nicht in den Flüssen. Nirgends ... Ganz Deutschland freut sich über den neuen Jahrtausendsommer. Dauersonnenschein sorgt für volle Freibäder. Einzig Hydrologe Julius Denner und IT-Spezialistin Elsa Forsberg warnen davor, dass die Hitze sich kurzfristig verschärfen wird - mit gravierenden Folgen. Niemand nimmt sie ernst, bis die ersten Flüsse austrocknen, ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Disaster Survival Guide

    The Ultimate Life-Saving Manual To Survive Any Emergency

    by David Burke ...
    Narrated by Tom Fria ...
    Audiobook 1 - Disaster Survival Guide Kit

    Unabridged

    4 hours 11 min

    You Know How To Survive A Disaster?If the answer is "NO," then the Disaster Survival Handbook is a MUST-HAVE!This is a reference book on how to stay alive in man-made and natural disasters.Prepare yourself with the skills you need, because you never know when tragedy hits!If disaster strikes, the world changes. Everything we've come to rely on is in doubt, and we often find ourselves with only our ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Great Fire of London, The

    Rats, Disease, and Uncontrolled Fires Tormenting the English in 1666

    by Kelly Mass ...
    Narrated by Doug Greene ...

    Unabridged

    52 min

    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 to extinguish the flames in time.You will also learn ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Burgundia

    by Hans Henrik Møller ...
    Narrated by Thomas Gulstad ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 47 min

    Roman om Øen, Himlen og HavetNatten mellem den 17. og 18. september 1958 forliser MS Burgundia på vej fra Fakse til Rønne. Det sker i Hammervandet, omkring 12 sømil vest for Rønne ... Sådan starter Hans Henrik Møllers underfundige roman om Bornholm.BURGUNDIA er en geografisk roman, der fabulerende og frodigt understreger, hvad moderne mennesker synes at have glemt: At mennesker eller individer ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

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    Young Men and Fire

    by Norman Maclean ...
    Narrated by Corey M. Snow ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Fire on the Mountain

    by John N. Maclean ...
    Narrated by John N. Maclean ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 41 min

    On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded by the district's Bureau of Land Management office as taking place in South Canyon, thereby mislabeling forever one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. That seemingly small human error foreshadowed the numerous other minor errors that, three days later, would be ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Weather 101

    From Doppler Radar and Long-Range Forecasts to the Polar Vortex and Climate Change, Everything You Need to Know about the Study of Weather

    by Kathleen Sears ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...
    series Adams 101

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    In this clear and straight new guide from the author of Grammar 101 and Weather 101, get a crash course in understanding the science behind weather and weather prediction.Weather is everywhere, and while it’s typically not thought about most of the time, it can get everyone’s attention in an instant—whether it’s the swirling destruction of a tornado, the wreckage from a hurricane, or the havoc of ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Furious Sky

    The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 50 min

    With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus's New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Weaving a story of shipwrecks and devastated cities, of heroism and folly, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes and puts us in the middle of the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    101 Amazing Facts about Natural Disasters

    by Jack Goldstein, Frankie Taylor ...
    Narrated by Andrew Baldwin ...
    Audiobook 13 - 101 Amazing Facts

    Unabridged

    1 hour 21 min

    What exactly is an avalanche? Why do tropical cyclones spin in different directions? What is the deadliest heat wave ever to have been recorded? And what are the three different types of lightning? In this fascinating audiobook, narrator Andrew Baldwin answers all these questions and more as he talks us through over one hundred amazing facts about the world’s most deadly natural disasters. From ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

    by Michael Punke ...
    Narrated by William Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 38 min

    From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant – the book that inspired the award-winning movie – comes the remarkable true story of the worst mining disaster in American history.In 1917, the lives of a company of miners changed forever when the underground labyrinth of tunnels in which they worked burst into flames. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Could California drought make residents sick?

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    6 min

    As California's five-year drought continues, the community of East Porterville has become an epicenter for the state's water shortage. Of the 1,800 homes located in the town, nearly 500 have lost wells that provided water for bathing and washing food. Officials worry the predicament will take a toll on the health of the community’s 7,000 residents. NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan reports. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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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 ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 48 min

    **“An intense, immersive deep dive into a wild, dangerous, and unknown world, written with the pace and appeal of a great thriller. This is nonfiction at its very best.”—Lee ChildThe 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**In late September 2015, Hurricane Joaquin ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Next Apocalypse

    The Art and Science of Survival

    by Chris Begley ...
    Narrated by Chris Begley, Keith Sellon-Wright ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 38 min

    In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future.Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more, our imaginations run wild with visions of dreadful, abandoned cities and returning to the land in a desperate attempt at ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Little Ice Age

    How Climate Made History 1300–1850

    by Brian Fagan ...
    Narrated by Michael Langan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 32 min

    The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today’s global warming.Only in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times. This development confirmed a long-standing suspicion: ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Mississippi River Floodwater

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    6 min

    A 15-mile stretch of the swollen Mississippi River, closed Tuesday due to pressure on levees, has been reopened to barges moving one at a time. Tom Bearden reports on the short- and long-term environmental effects the floodwater could have on Lake Pontchartrain, oyster beds and more. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Japan Imagines Renewable Future

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    5 min

    Special correspondent Emily Taguchi has the story of Fukushima, Japan, a town aching for a comeback after an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. Once the home of the Fukushima Reactor, the town is looking towards renewable energy and other renewable sources to build a better future. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Drowning of Money Island

    A Forgotten Community's Fight Against the Rising Seas Forever Changing Coastal America

    by Andrew S. Lewis ...
    Narrated by Thom Rivera ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 52 min

    Offers a glimpse of the future of vanishing shorelines in America in the age of climate change, where the wealthy will be able to remain the longest while the poor will be forced to leave.Journalist Andrew Lewis chronicles the struggle of his New Jersey hometown to rebuild their ravaged homes in the face of the same environmental stresses and governmental neglect that are endangering coastal areas ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Colapso México

    Los culpables y las víctimas de nuestra crisis climática

    by Mael Vallejo ...
    Narrated by Hernán Espinoza ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours

    YA ESTAMOS VIVIENDO UNA CRISIS PEOR QUE LA PANDEMIA.La crisis ambiental se cobrará más vidas y golpeará más duraderamente a México que el Covid-19, simplemente no hemos querido verlo.Los reportajes de este libro retratan las caras que ya presenta este fenómenoen el país: el horror de los huracanes en Centroamérica y la inundación migratoria que desatan, la confluencia de lo... ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Big Burn

    Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

    by Timothy Egan ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land.On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Body Count

    How climate change is killing us

    by Paddy Manning ...
    Narrated by Laurence Brewer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    Suddenly, when the country caught fire, people realised what the government has not: that climate change is killing us.But climate deaths didn’t start in 2019. Medical officers have been warning of a health emergency as temperatures rise for years, and for at least a decade Australians have been dying from the plagues of climate change – from heat, flood, disease, smoke. And now, pandemic.In this ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    In central Mexico, earthquake survivors face extensive damage

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    3 min

    Mexico’s government said Sunday that 318 people died from last week's major earthquake, including 180 people in Mexico City, where dozens of buildings collapsed. Outside the city, residents of rural towns and villages are assessing massive damage to their homes and businesses. NewsHour Correspondent William Brangham spoke with residents of several communities about what comes next. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Planet Drama

    How natural disasters shape life on Earth

    by Science News ...
    Narrated by Ashley Klanac ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 23 min

    From asteroids and gamma-ray bursts to volcanoes, landslides and tornadoes, there are a lot of disasters with the potential to wipe out life on Earth. The stories that follow from Science News and Science News for Students explore the natural disasters that have killed flora and fauna, including humans, throughout history on the planet. Listen and learn about how scientists are trying to ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Day the World Ended

    The Mount Pelee Disaster: May 7, 1902

    by Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 38 min

    In late April 1902, Mount Pelee, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive: a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial