List of songs about the environment

This list of songs about the environment includes only songs whose author has an article in the EnglishWikipedia.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

0-9

• 10,000 Maniacs - "Campfire Song", "Grey Victory", "Poison in the Well"

A

• Above & Beyond - "Miracle"
• After Forever - "Equally Destructive"
• Alabama - "Pass It on Down"
• Alan Walker - "Different World feat. Sofia Carson, K-391, and CORSACK"
• Albert Hammond - "Down by the River (Albert Hammond Song)"
• Alligatoah- "Lass liegen"
• John Anderson - "Seminole Wind"
• Annihilator - "Stonewall", "No Zone"
• Aerosmith - "Nobody's Fault"
• Alter Bridge - "Bleed It Dry", "The Writing on the Wall"
• Anohni - "4 Degrees", "Marrow", "Why Did You Separate Me From The Earth", "Hopelessness"
• Antony and the Johnsons - "Another World"
• Anúna- "August"
• April Wine - "Lady Run, Lady Hide"
• Louis Armstrong - “What A Wonderful World”
• Arrested Development - "Children Play With Earth"
• Atreyu - "Stop! Before It's Too Late And We've Destroyed It All"
• August Burns Red - "The Wake", "Carbon Copy"
• Aurora - "The Seed", "Apple Tree"
• Axxis - "Better World / Livin' In The Dark", "Tears of the trees", "Save me", "Fire And Ice"

B

• B52's - "Juicy Jungle"
• Babylon Zoo - "Animal Army"
• Bad Religion - "Cease", "Faith Alone", "Germs of Perfection", "Grains of Wrath", "How Much Is Enough?", "Kyoto Now!", "Los Angeles Is Burning", "Losing Generation", "Modern Day Catastrophists", "Modern Man", "New Leaf", "Punk Rock Song", "Ten In 2010", "The Grand Delusion", "Time And Disregard", "Too Much To Ask", "Unacceptable", and "Watch It Die"
• Roy Bailey - "The Last Ploughshare", "Blackwaters", "Green Peace Really Green", "Red and Green", "The Last of the Great Whales"
• The Beach Boys - "Don't Go Near the Water", "A Day in the Life of a Tree", "Country Air"
• The Beatles - "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" and "Mother Nature's Son"
• Ben Harper - "Excuse Me Mr."
• Billie Eilish - "all the good girls go to hell"
• Bjork - "Earth Intruders", "Náttúra"
• Black Sabbath - "Into the Void", "Hole in the Sky", and "Children of the Sea"
• Blues Traveler - "Whoops"
• Bowerbirds - "In Our Talons"
• David Bowie - "Time Will Crawl"
• Bring Me the Horizon - "One Day the Only Butterflies Left Will Be in Your Chest as You March Towards Your Death"
• Edgar Broughton Band - "Poppy"
• Jackson Browne - "Before The Deluge"
• Bruce Cockburn - "If a Tree Falls"
• Bruce Hornsby - "Look Out Any Window"
• Bryan Adams - "Don't Drop that Bomb on Me"
• Bush - "The Disease of the Dancing Cats"
• The Byrds - "Hungry Planet"
• Bliss n Eso - "Sea Is Rising"
• John Butler - "Kimberley"

C

• Coldplay - "Beautiful world"
• JJ Cale - "Death in the Wilderness" "Stone River"
• Cake - "Carbon Monoxide" and "Long Line of Cars"
• Captain Beefheart - "Abba Zabba", "The Dust Blows Forward and the Dust Blows Back", "Flash Gordon's Ape", "Frownland", "Petrified Forest", "The Smithsonian Institute Blues", and "Wildlife"
• Cat Stevens - "Where Do the Children Play"
• Adriano Celentano - "Il Ragazzo del Via Gluck"
• Chagall Guevara - “Murder in the Big House”
• Darryl Cherney - "Where Are We Gonna Work When the Trees Are Gone?", "You Can't Clearcut Your Way to Heaven"
• Childish Gambino - "Feels Like Summer"
• Johnny Clegg and Savuka - "Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World"
• Julian Cope - "Pristine", "Promised Land", "Not Waving, but Drowning", "Western Front 1992 CE", "Hung Up and Hanging Out to Dry", "The American Lite", and "Las Vegas Basement"
• Crash Parallel - "World We Know"
• Creaming Jesus - "Legacy (Tales #2)"
• Miley Cyrus - "Wake Up America" and "1 Sun"

D

• Dave Matthews Band - "Too Much"
• David Crosby & Graham Nash - "To the Last Whale: I. Critical Mass, II. Wind on the Water"
• Dawnstar - "Change The World"
• Dead Kennedys - "Cesspools in Eden" and "Moon Over Marin"
• Deadmau5 - "Animal Rights"
• Deep Forest - "Deep Blue Sea" and "Forest Hymn"
• Disturbed (band) - "Another Way To Die"
• John Denver - "Calypso", "I Want To Live", "Rocky Mountain High", and "Paradise"
• Depeche Mode - "The Landscape Is Changing"
• Devo - "No Place Like Home"
• Bo Diddley - "Pollution"
• Dir en grey - "Glass Skin"
• Bonnie Dobson - "Morning Dew" (covered by Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry, Gregg Allman and by more than twenty other artists)
• Thomas Donovan - "Calling Around The World"
• The Doors - "When the Music's Over"
• Dramarama - "What Are We Gonna Do"
• Dub Inc - "Revolution"
• Ian Dury - "Poo-poo in the prawn"
• Bob Dylan - "License to Kill"
• Dr. Octagon - "Trees"
• Demi Lovato and *Joe Jonas - "Make a Wave"
• Declan McKenna - "Brazil"

E

• The Eagles - "The Last Resort" and "No More Walks In The Woods"
• Eddie Vedder - "Society"
• Electric Light Orchestra - "In Old England Town (Boogie No. 2)", "Jungle", "King of the Universe", "Laredo Tornado", "Mission (A World Record)", "One Summer Dream", and "Time After Time"
• Ellie Goulding - "In This Together"
• Enter Shikari - “Juggernauts”, and "Arguing with Thermometers"
• Environmental Protection Agency Chorus - "When the North Pole Melts"
• Epica - "This is the Time"
• Melissa Etheridge - "I Need To Wake Up"
• Eurythmics - "When Tomorrow Comes"
• Evildead - "Global warming"
• Exodus - "Chemi-Kill"

F

• Fathead - "Clean It Up"
• Fleshies - "South Miami"
• Five Man Electrical Band - "Signs"
• Dan Fogelberg - "Cry in the Forest" and "Face the Fire"
• Steve Forbert - "Good Planets Are Hard to Find"
• Hudson Ford - "Burn Baby Burn"
• Fredrika Stahl - "Tomorrow", "Pull Up Your Sleeves"
• A Friend in London - "A New Tomorrow"
• Freedom Call - "Mother Earth"
• Disney's Friends for Change - "Make a Wave"
• Fugazi - “Burning Too”

G

• Peter Gabriel - "Down to Earth" and "Here Comes the Flood"
• Gabrielle Aplin - "Reverse"
• Marvin Gaye - "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)"
• Genesis - "Dodo/Lurker"
• Girlyman - "Amaze Me"
• Goats Don't Shave - "Let the World Keep On Turning"
• Gojira - "A Sight to Behold", "Amazonia", "Embrace the World", "Global Warming", "Ocean Planet", "Toxic Garbage Island", "Adoration for none", "In the wilderness", "Wolf down the earth", "World to Come"
• Goose Creek Symphony - "Oxygen"
• Gorillaz - "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead", "O Green World", and "Superfast Jellyfish""Plastic Beach"
• Gotye - "Eyes Wide Open"
• Greg Graffin - "Cease", "Cold As The Clay", "Tell Me What you Think", and "Time Of Need"
• Grandaddy - "Nature Anthem", "Broken Household Appliance National Forest", "The Group Who Couldn't Say"
• The Grateful Dead - "We Can Run"
• Gamma Ray - "To Mother Earth!"
• Globus - "Wyatt Earth"
• GioLeo - "Catastrophe"

H

• Albert Hammond - "Down By The River"
• The Handsome Family - "Peace in the Valley Once Again"
• Sophie B. Hawkins - "The Land, The Sea, and The Sky"
• Halsey - "New Americana"
• He Is Legend - "Air Raid"
• Heaven Shall Burn - "My heart and the ocean"
• Bruce Hornsby & The Range - "Look Out Any Window"

I

• Iron Maiden - "Total Eclipse"
• Islands - "Humans"
• Ian Kelly - "Wonderful Humans"
• Imogen Heap - "Earth"
• Imagine Dragons - "Radioactive"
• Inch Chua - "All Rivers Lead to the Sea"
• Incubus - "On the burial ground"

J

• Michael Jackson - "Cry", "Earth Song", "Heal The World", "We Are The World", "Why You Wanna Trip On Me", "What More Can I Give" and "Man in the Mirror"
• James - "Greenpeace" and "What For"
• Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity, When You Gonna Learn?, Emergency On Planet Earth
• Joe Walsh - "Song for a Dying Planet"
• Jack Johnson - "3 R's", "The Horizon Has Been Defeated", and "With My Own Two Hands" (ft. Ben Harper)
• Jason Mraz - "Only Human"
• Jefferson Airplane - "Eskimo Blue Day"
• Jethro Tull - "North Sea Oil" and "Wond'ring Again"
• John Prine - “Paradise”
• Johnny Cash - "Don't Go Near the Water"
• Joni Mitchell - "Big Yellow Taxi"
• Joe Jonas and *Demi Lovato - "Make a Wave"
• José González (singer) - "Every Age"

K

• Kansas - "Song for America"
• James Keelaghan - "River Run"
• Kingdom Come - "Blood on the land"
• The Kinks - "Apeman" and "God's Children"
• Klaatu - "Blue Smoke"
• Korpiklaani - "With Trees"
• King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - "Planet B", "Melting", "Greenhouse Heat Death", "Plastic Boogie", "Mars for the Rich", "Fishing for Fishies"

L

• Lamb of God - "Reclamation"
• Led Zeppelin - "That's the Way"
• Tom Lehrer - "Pollution"
• Julian Lennon - "Saltwater"
• Level 42 - "The Chant has Begun"
• Lil B - "Earth's Medicine"
• Lil Dicky - "Earth"
• Linkin Park - "What I've Done"
• Kenny Loggins - "Conviction of the Heart" and "This Island Earth"
• Corb Lund - "Truth Comes Out"
• Jeff Lynne - "Save Me Now"
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - "All I Can Do Is Write About It" and "Tomorrow's Goodbye"
• Ben Lee - "I Love Pop Music"
• Lissie - "Mountaintop Removal"

M

• Macaco - "Mama Tierra"
• Bill Madden - "Gone", "Mother", "Deluge"
• Madonna - "4 Minutes", "Love Makes the World Go Round" and "Hey You"
• Magpie - "Circle of Life"
• Maná - "Cuando los ángeles lloran"
• Manfred Mann's Earth Band - "Messin'" and "Give Me The Good Earth"
• Kathy Mar - "No Such Thing"
• Marillion - "Beautiful" and "Season's End"
• Marina Diamandis – "Purge the Poison"
• Ziggy Marley - "Dragonfly"
• John Mayer - "Waiting on the World to Change"
• C.W. McCall - "There Won't Be No Country Music"
• Barry McGuire - "Eve of Destruction"
• Roger McGuinn - "The Trees Are All Gone"
• Megadeth - "Countdown to Extinction" and "Dawn Patrol"
• Metallica - "Blackened"
• MGMT - "Kids"
• Danny Michel - "Feather, Fur & Fin"
• Mickey 3D - "Respire"
• Miguel - "Now"
• Joni Mitchell - "Big Yellow Taxi"
• Moxy Früvous - "River Valley"
• Jason Mraz - "Only Human"
• Midnight Oil - "Antarctica", "Beds Are Burning", "Now or Never Land", "Progress", "River Runs Red"
• Midnight Oil, Daniel Lanois, Hothouse Flowers, Crash Vegas, and The Tragically Hip (collaborative charity single) - "Land"
• Miyavi - "Gravity"
• Modest Mouse - "King Rat", "Lampshades on Fire"
• Moondog - "Enough About Human Rights" and "Aska Me"
• Motion City Soundtrack - "Hello Helicopter"
• Mos Def - "New World Water"
• Bob Mould - "It's Too Late"
• The Move - "Message from the Country"
• Mudhoney - "Poisoned Water" and "This is the Life"
• Nipesh DHAKA - "Melancholy"

N

• Napalm Death - "Point of No Return",and "Unfit Earth"
• Graham Nash - "Barrel Of Pain"
• Nevermore - "Matricide"
• New Model Army - "225", "Angry Planet", "Ballad", "End of Days", "I Love the World", "The Weather", "Vanity", "Whitecoats"
• New Riders of the Purple Sage - "Cement, Clay And Glass" and "Garden of Eden"
• Randy Newman - "Burn On"
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "Mother Earth"
• Yannick Noah - "Aux arbres citoyens"
• Neko Case - "This Tornado Loves You"
• Nuclear Assault - "Critical Mass" and "Inherited Hell"
• Gary Numan - "We're the Unforgiven", "Intruder"
• Nightwish - "Planet Hell"
• Nine Inch Nails - "The Beginning of the End", "Survivalism" and "Capital G", "Vanity"

O

• Wendy Oldfield - "Acid Rain"
• Omnia - "Earth Warrior"
• One Republic - "Truth to Power"
• Opus III - "When You Made The Mountain"
• Orbital - "Impact (The Earth is Burning)"
• OutKast - "Vibrate"
• Ozzy Osbourne - "Revelation (Mother Earth)", "The Almighty Dollar" and "Dreamer"
• The Osmonds - "Crazy Horses"
• Oh Wonder - "Lifetimes"

P

• Pain - "Psalms of Extinction"
• Brad Paisley - "Gone Green"
• Parkway Drive - "Dark Days"
• Parquet Courts - "Before the Water Gets Too High"
• Tom Paxton - "Whose Garden Was This"
• Pearl Jam - "Do the Evolution", "Infallible", "Quick Escape", "Retrograde", and "Whale Song"
• Pink Floyd - "Sorrow" and "Take it Back"
• Periphery - "Satellites"
• Pitbull - "Global Warming"
• The Pixies - "Monkey Gone to Heaven"
• Paradise Oskar - "Da Da Dam"
• Pocahontas - "Just Around the Riverbend" and "Colors of the Wind"
• The Police - "Driven to Tears"
• Poppy feat. Diplo- “Time is Up”
• Hugh Prestwood - "Bristlecone Pine"
• John Prine - "Paradise"
• Public Enemy - "Don't Give Up the Fight"
• Chuck Pyle - "Keeping Time by the River"

Q

• Queen - "The Prophet's Song", "Is This The World We Created"
• Queensrÿche - "Resistance"
• Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Fresh Air" and "What About Me"

R

• Radiohead - "2+2=5", "Bloom", "Fake Plastic Trees", "Idioteque", "Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)", and "The Numbers"
• Chris Rea - "The Road to Hell"
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Green Heaven", "Naked In The Rain", and "The Righteous & The Wicked"
• Regurgitator - "Everyday Formula"
• REO Speedwagon - "Love in the Future"
• Renaissance - "Ashes Are Burning" and "Cold Is Being"
• R.E.M. - "Cuyahoga" and "Fall on Me"
• Rise Against - "Give It All", "Ready To Fall", "Collapse (Post-Amerika)", "Help Is on the Way", "The Eco-Terrorist In Me", and "Parts Per Million"
• Roberto Carlos - "O Progresso"
• Xavier Rudd - "The Mother", "Messages"
• Lou Reed - "Romeo Had Juliette", "Last Great American Whale", and "Sick Of You"
• Rush - "Second Nature" and "The Trees"
• Roisin Murphy- "Dear Miami"
• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - "A Minute to Breathe"

S

• Sacred Reich - "Crimes against humanity"
• The Samples - "Another Disaster", "Close to the Fires", "Nature"
• Sarah Brightman - "Running"
• Scary Kids Scaring Kids - "The World as We Know it"
• Scorpions - "Humanity"
• Pete Seeger - "Garden Song," "God's Counting on Me, God's Counting on You." and My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song)
• The Sisters of Mercy - "Black Planet"
• Shaman’s Harvest - “Tusk and Bone”
• Skyclad - "Cry of the Land"
• Slayer - "Skeletons Of Society"
• Sarah Slean - "The Day We Saved the World"
• Hurricane Smith - "Don't Let It Die"
• Soundgarden - "Hands All Over" and "Into the Void (Sealth)" (Black Sabbath cover using the words of Chief Seattle/Sealth)
• Sonata Arctica - "Wrecking the Sphere", "Respect the Wilderness"
• Soja - "Mother Earth"
• Sparks - "Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth"
• Spirit - "Fresh Garbage" and "Nature's Way"
• Stratovarius - "Paradise", "Mother Gaia" and "Fantasia"
• Story of the year - "The Children Sing"
• Sublime - "Badfish"
• The Submarines - "You, Me and Bourgeoisie"
• Sufjan Stevens - "Lord God Bird"
• Sweatshop Union - "Dirty Work" and "Labour Pains"
• System of a Down - "Aerials"
• Smokey Mountain - "Paraiso"
• Supersci - "Forests and Factories"
• Bob Seger - "It's Your World" and "The Fireman's Talkin'"

T

• Talk Talk - "Tomorrow Started"
• Talking Heads - "Nothing But Flowers", “Air”
• Tankard - "Dancing on our grave"
• Serj Tankian - "Harakiri"
• Tegan and Sara - "Our Trees"
• Tesseract - "Eden"
• Testament - "Green House Effect", "Fall of Sipledome"
• They Might Be Giants - "Electric Car"
• Thin Lizzy - "Mama Nature Said"
• Think Tree - "Hire a Bird"
• Thirty Seconds to Mars - "A Beautiful Lie" and "Kings and Queens"
• Three Dog Night - "Out In The Country"
• Tim Minchin - "Canvas Bags"
• Die Toten Hosen - "Regen"
• Tower of Power - "There Is Only So Much Oil in the Ground"
• Devin Townsend - "Earth Day"
• Tryo - "L'hymne de nos campagnes", "Le Saule", "Ballade en Forêt", "L'air du Plastique"
• James Taylor - "Gaia"

U

• USA For Africa - "We Are The World"
• USA Is A Monster - "Florida"
• United Deejays For Central America (ATB, Jan Wayne, DJ Sakin & Friends, DJ Tomcraft, Hypertrophy, Kai Tracid, Kosmonova, Marc et Claude, Moguai, Oliver Momm, Piet Blank & Jaspa Jones, Phil Fuldner, Red 5, Sash!, Woody van Eyden) - Too Much Rain

V

• Vera Blue - "Like I Remember You"
• The Vines - "Killin The Planet"

W

• Joe Walsh - "A Life Of Illusion"
• Warrant - "April 2031"
• Widespread Panic - "Greta"
• Dar Williams - "What Do You Love More Than Love", "Go To The Woods", and "The Hudson"
• John Williamson - "Rip Rip Woodchip"
• Edgar Winter White Trash - "Save the Planet"
• World Party - "Put the Message in the Box", "Ship of Fools", "Take It Up", and "Thank You World"
• Malvina Reynolds - "What Have They Done to the Rain"
• Ween - "Ocean Man"
• Die Woody's - "Fichtl's Lied"

X

• X-Ray Spex - "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo"
• XIT - "Color Nature Gone"
• XTC - "River of Orchids"

Y

• The Yardbirds - "Shapes of Things"
• Yes - "Don't Kill the Whales"
• Thom Yorke - "And It Rained All Night", "The Clock" and "Hands Off The Antarctic"
• Neil Young - "After the Gold Rush," "Natural Beauty," “Who’s Gonna Stand Up?”, “Plastic Flowers”, and "After the Garden."
• Yoann Lemoine - "Evergreen"

Z

• Zager and Evans - "In The Year 2525"
• Warren Zevon - "Run Straight Down"
• Ziggy Alberts - "Laps Around the Sun" "Together"

References

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