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Title: Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Author: Thomas Halliday

Narrator: Adetomiwa Edun

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

“Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth—from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”—The Economist LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • “One of those rare books that’s both deeply informative and daringly imaginative.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Prospect (UK) The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life on the page. This book is an exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that have occurred during its history, and the ways that life has found to adapt―or not. It takes us from the savannahs of Pliocene Kenya to watch a python chase a group of australopithecines into an acacia tree; to a cliff overlooking the salt pans of the empty basin of what will be the Mediterranean Sea just as water from the Miocene Atlantic Ocean spills in; into the tropical forests of Eocene Antarctica; and under the shallow pools of Ediacaran Australia, where we glimpse the first microbial life.  Otherlands also offers us a vast perspective on the current state of the planet. The thought that something as vast as the Great Barrier Reef, for example, with all its vibrant diversity, might one day soon be gone sounds improbable. But the fossil record shows us that this sort of wholesale change is not only possible but has repeatedly happened throughout Earth history. Even as he operates on this broad canvas, Halliday brings us up close to the intricate relationships that defined these lost worlds. In novelistic prose that belies the breadth of his research, he illustrates how ecosystems are formed; how species die out and are replaced; and how species migrate, adapt, and collaborate. It is a breathtaking achievement: a surprisingly emotional narrative about the persistence of life, the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, and the scope of deep time, all of which have something to tell us about our current crisis.

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Title: The Lost Sounds

Author: Jackie Morris, Robert MacFarlane, Chris Watson

Narrator: Robert Macfarlane

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Release date: January 27, 2022

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Woodland, moorland, sea... Great Britain is home to vast array of beautiful natural settings, each with its own unique sounds. The award-winning audiobook for The Lost Words and its sister, The Lost Spells, showcased the immersive power of a natural soundscape. Compiled by renowned wildlife recordist, Chris Watson, these soundscapes acted as the backdrop and setting for beautiful spells, whilst possessing an energy and life of their own. Now, these aural glimpses into the natural world, be it an adder in grass or an egret submerging into the swell of the ocean, are brought together to star in their own right. Complemented by a foreword from renowned writer Robert Macfarlane, beautiful artwork by Jackie Morris and a fascinating 'making of' interview with sound recordist Chris Watson, The Lost Sounds is an immersive natural listening experience, taking reader across the UK through the sounds of nature. © Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, Chris Watson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: Another Lousy Day in Paradise

Author: John Gierach

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Release date: January 25, 2022

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers. 'Good fishing and good writing use the same skills,' writes John Gierach, 'whether you're after a trout or a story, you won’t get that far with brute force. You’re better off to watch, wait, and remain calm . . . letting it all happen, rather than trying to make it happen.' As the wry and perceptive essays in Another Lousy Day in Paradise prove, Gierach knows his writing as well as his fishing. Paradise, Gierach shows us, is relative; it can be found in the guilty luxury of fishing private waters or when one is soaked to the skin, in a small canoe on a big lake in a storm a hundred miles from anywhere, exhilarated after a day's fishing. There are also pleasures to be found in unexpected places: solitary fishing trips, fishing for less-appreciated fish like carp, or meeting a guide who at first seems like an inarticulate ax murderer but who proves to be a 'Zen master among fishing guides.' The point is to let things unfold as they will—because after all, says Gierach, 'Basically, the world is a big, dumb trout, and you’re a fisherman with all the time in the world.' As Gierach fans know, this is a description of paradise.

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Title: Taking the Heat: How Climate Change Is Affecting Your Mind, Body, and Spirit and What You Can Do About It

Author: Bonnie Schneider

Narrator: Bonnie Schneider

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Release date: January 25, 2022

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

From meteorologist and Peabody Award–winning journalist Bonnie Schneider, an innovative look at how climate change is already threatening our mental and physical health and practical tips for you to tackle these challenges head on. The impacts of climate change have become dire. Rising temperatures, volatile weather, and poor air quality affect our physical and mental health in dangerous new ways. From increasing the risk of infectious disease to amplifying emotional stress and anxiety—even the healthiest among us are at risk. Bonnie Schneider has tracked environmentally-linked physiological impacts throughout her career as a TV journalist, meteorologist, and the founder of Weather & Wellness©—a platform that explores the connection between weather, climate change, and health. In Taking the Heat, Schneider provides crucial advice from science experts and medical professionals to help you: -Cope with the mental anguish of “eco-anxiety” and other climate change fears for our planet’s future, particularly expressed by millennials and Gen-Z -Identify health hazards caused by extreme heat and air pollution that disproportionally affect low-income and minority communities -Uncover the science behind longer and stronger allergy seasons and learn new ways to reduce your risk of adverse allergic reactions -Detect the increased threat of dangerous pathogens lurking in unexpected places and why we may face future pandemics -Understand how seasonal fluctuations of sunlight, heat, and humidity can not only factor into feelings of depression and anxiety but also can trigger flare-ups for certain auto-immune diseases -Discover how meditation and mindfulness practices can ease the psychological stress that often occurs in the aftermath of devastating natural disasters -Explore how the Earth’s rising temperatures may rob you of restorative sleep and impair mental sharpness -Learn why increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may reduce the availability of what you choose to eat; learn sustainable solutions—from food to fitness - And more! Anchored in the latest scientific research and filled with relatable first-person stories, this book is the one guide you need to navigate the future of your own health—mind, body, and spirit, in a rapidly changing environment.

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Title: The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

Author: Ben Rawlence

Narrator: Jamie Parker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Release date: January 13, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. The Treeline is a spellbinding blend of nature, travel and science writing, deeply researched and beautifully written, underpinned by an urgent environmental message. The Arctic Treeline - the northern limit of the boreal forest that encircles the globe in an almost unbroken green ring - is the second largest biome on our planet. At this little-known frontline of climate change, the trees have been creeping towards the pole for fifty years already. Six of the tree species that populate these forests (Larch, Spruce, Mountain Ash, Downy Birch, Balsam Poplar and Scots Pine) form the central protagonists of Ben Rawlence's story. In Scotland, northern Scandinavia, Siberia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland, he discovers what these trees and the people who live and work alongside them have to tell us about the past, present and future of our planet. Scientists are only just beginning to understand the astonishing significance of these forests for all life on Earth. At the Treeline, Rawlence witnesses the accelerating impact of climate change and the devastating legacies of colonialism and capitalism. But he also finds reasons for hope. Humans are creatures of the forest; we have always evolved with trees. The Treeline asks us where our co-evolution might take us next. © Ben Rawlence 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: [Spanish] - Los físicos y Dios

Author: Eduardo Battaner

Narrator: Rafael Lucas

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Release date: January 10, 2022

Genres: Animals & Nature

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A menudo conocemos las teorías que los grandes físicos de la historia han desarrollado, pero ignoramos aspectos biográficos que les han influido, como sus pensamientos teístas o ateos. A veces sus creencias han tenido un efecto en su ciencia y en otras ha sido la ciencia la cual ha influido en sus creencias. ¿Qué ideas religiosas tenían Aristóteles, Copérnico, Galileo, Einstein o Dirac? ¿Cómo influyó el contexto? Eduardo Battaner nos lo cuenta en este libro desde una perspectiva objetiva e histórica. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Eduardo Battaner es físico. Estudió en Madrid y más tarde completó su formación en el Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie en Lindau. Ejerció como catedrático en el Departamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos de la Universidad de Granada y actualmente es coordinador de Astrofísica del Instituto Carlos I de Física Teórica y Computacional. Es especialista en magnetismo cósmico y ha publicado diversos libros de divulgación científica. En 2009 recibió el premio RSEF-Fundación BBVA a la Docencia Universitaria.

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Title: Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It

Author: Max Wilbert, Lierre Keith, Derrick Jensen

Narrator: Joel Richards

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Release date: December 28, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

'This disturbing but very important book makes clear we must dig deeper than the normal solutions we are offered.'—Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia Works Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic consumption and industrial expansion and survive as a species. The environmental debate, Derrick Jensen and his coauthors argue, has been distorted by hubris and the childish desire by those in industrialized nations to sustain the unsustainable. All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the Earth itself. We refuse to ask the right questions because these questions expose a stark truth—we cannot continue to live as we are living. To do so is suicidal folly.

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Title: Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food

Author: Roanne Van Voorst

Narrator: Eileen Stevens

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Release date: December 28, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman’s bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of a future where animal consumption is a thing of the past. Though increasing numbers of people know that eating meat is detrimental to our planet’s health, many still can’t be convinced to give up eating meat. But how can we change behavior when common arguments and information aren’t working?  Acclaimed anthropologist Roanne Van Voorst changes the dialogue. In Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals, she shifts the focus from the present looking forward to the future looking back—imagining a world in which most no longer use  animals for food, clothing, or other items. By shifting the viewpoint, she offers a clear and compelling vision of what it means to live in a world without meat. A massive shift is already taking place—everything van Voorst covers in this book has already been invented and is being used today by individuals and small organizations worldwide.  Hopeful and persuasive, Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals offers a tantalizing vision of what is not only possible but perhaps inevitable.

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Title: The World is Blue: How Our Fate and The Ocean’s Are One

Author: Sylvia A. Earle

Narrator: Sheree Wichard

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2021

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just fifty years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis. In recent decades we've learned more about the ocean than in all previous human history combined. But, even as our knowledge has exploded, so too has our power to upset the delicate balance of this complex organism. Modern overexploitation has driven many species to the verge of extinction. Since the mid-twentieth century about half our coral reefs have died or suffered sharp decline; hundreds of oxygen-deprived 'dead zones' blight our coastal waters; and toxic pollutants afflict every level of the food chain. Fortunately, there is reason for hope, but what we do—or fail to do—in the next ten years may well resonate for the next ten thousand. The ultimate goal, Earle argues passionately and persuasively, is to find responsible, renewable strategies that safeguard the natural systems that sustain us. The first step is to understand and act upon the wise message of this accessible, insightful, and compelling book.

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Title: Roger Deakin: A BBC Nature Collection: The legendary naturalist on wild swimming and nature, plus a reading of Wildwood

Author: Roger Deakin

Narrator: Roger Deakin, Robert Macfarlane, Alice Roberts, Richard Mabey, Clare Balding

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 0 minutes

Release date: December 16, 2021

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

An anthology of programmes hosted by and about Roger Deakin, the legendary naturalist, introduced by his friend Robert Macfarlane. Author, filmmaker and conservationist Roger Deakin first came to fame with his bestselling book Waterlog, which brought wild swimming into the mainstream and pioneered the 'new nature writing' genre. Published posthumously, his second travelogue, Wildwood, and collected journals, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm, were also hailed as classics. The collection is introduced by Robert Macfarlane, a dear friend of Roger Deakin's as well as his literary executor. Deakin's life at Walnut Tree Farm is the subject of the two radio soundscapes that open this collection. In The House, he introduces us to his home of almost 40 years, presenting an atmospheric sound portrait of this ancient, timber-framed Suffolk farmhouse - from the sighing of the wind to the scuttling spiders and the chirpings of the swallows up the chimney. The Garden takes us on a tour of the untamed land surrounding it - with its moat, shepherd's hut and the walnut tree that gave the farm its name - offering us an intimate record of the changing seasons. Cigarette on the Waveney sees Deakin paddling his canoe, Cigarette, from the source of the River Waveney at Redgrave Fen in Suffolk to Geldeston Locks in Norfolk. Recorded over several days and nights, this evocative audio diary charts his journey as he captures the sounds of the waterway and its wildlife. Next, in a 5-part abridged reading of Wildwood by Sean Baker, we journey with Deakin from Suffolk in the spring to the Australian outback, in search of what lies behind humanity's profound connection with wood and trees. A radio tribute to Waterlog follows, as anthropologist and wild swimmer Alice Roberts joins friends and fans of Deakin, including Robert Macfarlane, Sue Clifford and Richard Mabey, to celebrate the book's enduring legacy. And in a pair of travel documentaries, we take two delightful day trips with Roger Deakin. In Ramblings, he takes a walk with presenter Clare Balding around his home patch of Diss in Suffolk, and in On the Beach, he spends a summer day on the Essex coast near Clacton, revisiting one of the places he described so vividly in Waterlog: Jaywick Sands. © 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd The House Presented by Roger Deakin Produced by Sarah Blunt First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 2 February 2004 The Garden Presented by Roger Deakin Produced by Sarah Blunt First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 5 December 2005 Cigarette on the Waveney Presented by Roger Deakin Produced by Sarah Blunt First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 26 July 2005 Wildwood Read by Sean Baker Abridged by Julian Wilkinson Produced by Amber Barnfather First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 18-22 June 2007 Waterlog Presented by Alice Roberts Produced by Sarah Blunt With: Sue Clifford, Richard Mabey, Robert Macfarlane, Joe Minihane and Kate Rew First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 12 May 2019 Ramblings Presented by Clare Balding Produced by Mark Smalley First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 20 May 2005 On the Beach Presented by Roger Deakin Produced by Jane Greenwood First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 17 November 2003