Environment

A forester's fascinating stories backed by the latest scientific research illustrate how trees nurture and talk to each other....

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

Award-winning American news presenter Rachel Maddow investigates remarkable stories from around the globe, all leading back to the same crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry....

Find out how to fit sustainable living into your life, in a way that works for you. Change your impact without radically changing your life, and figure out the small steps you can make that will add up to make a big difference....

Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food....

Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ....

For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods....

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection inviting listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses....

A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings today....

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....

In Dirt to Soil, Gabe Brown tells the story of his ranch's amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to our most pressing and complex contemporary agricultural challenge - restoring the soil....

Practical, optimistic and empowering, The Future We Choose is a book for every generation, for all of us who feel powerless in the face of the climate crisis.... 

For more than 20 years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet - and the champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its centre. Her books have defined our era....

Anita Vandyke wants to show you that by living zero waste, you actually gain more - more time, more money and more life.... 

Our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics and revive economies is food....

The Nature Principle presents a compelling case that a conscious reconnection to nature can make us whole again....

How the Earth Works takes you on an astonishing journey through time and space. In 48 lectures, you will look at what went into making our planet - from the big bang, to the formation of the solar system, to the subsequent evolution of Earth....

The SAS Survival Guide is an essential companion for adventurers everywhere. From making camp and finding food in the wild to security and self-defence in the streets, be prepared on land or sea....

Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling today's rising youth to action: to create a better future....

For the first time, HRH The Prince of Wales shares his views on how our most pressing modern challenges are rooted in mankind's disharmony with nature....

In these 24 lectures, The Great Courses teams up with the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, to take you behind the scenes of the animal world....

An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life....

An invisible world of astonishing complexity is all around you. A world so small you can’t see it with the naked eye. A world so crowded that its population staggers the mind. A world in which you participate every day - often without even knowing it....

This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they had never foreseen. Of a happy life with two young daughters which suddenly falters, never to be the same again....

Finally home from London after his wartime service in the RAF, James Herriot is settling back into life as a country vet....

In New Guinea Pidgin, Thrown Way Leg means to go on a journey and it is also Tim Flannery's invitation to join him on his breathtaking adventure through the jungles....

Seven years in the making, Amity and Prosperity tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and of one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist....