Natural Resources

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    • The World We Lost and How to Bring It Back
    • By: Sophie Yeo
    • Narrated by: Emily Pennant-Rea
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the natural world. Our activities have permanently altered the environment – for good and for bad. Nature’s Ghosts examines how the planet would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity.

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    • The Price of Progress
    • By: Christopher Ryan
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 383 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....

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    • The History of How Coal Made Britain
    • By: Jeremy Paxman
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Paxman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 30-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Where would Britain be without coal? In this brilliant social history, Jeremy Paxman tells the story of how the black stuff has shaped every aspect of Britain....

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    • The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
    • By: Jonathan White, Peter Matthiessen - Foreward
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides....

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    • The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
    • By: David Sedlak
    • Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges....

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    • The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books
    • By: Marta McDowell
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 18-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The universal appeal of Laura Ingalls Wilder springs from a life lived in partnership with the land. In this revealing exploration of Wilder's deep connection with the natural world, Marta McDowell follows the wagon trail of the beloved Little House series....

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    • How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
    • By: Thor Hanson
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe....

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    • The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization
    • By: John Perlin
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Series: Patagonia
    • Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A Foundational Conservation Story Revived....

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    • Hope for a Thirsty World
    • By: Judith D. Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Nick Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Nick Jenkins explores our historic investment in the exploitation of fossil energy resources and their current importance, and discusses the implications of our increasing rate of energy use....

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    • The Story of Energy
    • By: Michael E. Webber
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A global tour of energy - the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat....

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    • A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside
    • By: Dieter Helm
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • This is an economist's approach to environmentalism, including a summary of Britain's green assets, a look towards possible futures and an achievable 25-year plan to a green and prosperous world....

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    • By: Ben Goldfarb
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers....

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    • The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet
    • By: Jo Handelsman, Kayla Cohen
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-21
    • Language: English
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    • This book by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery....

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    • Australia's Energy Transition
    • By: Alan Finkel
    • Narrated by: Lewis Fitz-Gerald
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The world is overheating, and despite good intentions and significant efforts, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions....

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    • By: Michael E. Webber
    • Narrated by: Tom Pile
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the world’s two most critical resources, their vital interconnections and vulnerabilities are less often recognized. This farsighted audiobook offers a new, holistic way of thinking about energy and water....

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    • Uncovering the Secrets of Seaweed and How It Can Save the Planet
    • By: Vincent Doumeizel
    • Narrated by: Luis Soto
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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