Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kelli McGuffey Pilkington hunts deer and squirrels, fishes whenever she can, stores jars of preserved food she cans herself — and ...

Survivalism, the practice of preparing for the collapse of civilization, tends to evoke a certain picture: the woodsman in the tinfoil hat, the hysteric with the hoard of beans, the religious ...

Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn't even have a spare nutrition bar in his kitchen cabinet. Now, the 54-year-old businessman and father of five has a backup generator, a water filter, a grain mill and ...

In the wake of a terrible tragedy like Friday's elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, most people immediately begin groping for answers. On Sunday, a family member claimed that Nancy ...

After the end of a hostage standoff this week in Alabama involving an alleged "survivalist," and news that a group in Idaho wants to construct a giant walled fortress in the panhandle of Idaho, many ...

During the past year, many of us turned towards the general tenets of survivalism, stocking up on supplies, planting gardens, and limiting our interactions with those outside of our immediate ...

The path to human survival, as with so many challenges, is more circuitous than direct. Our survival comes indirectly though the relational ethos, though a custodial ethic that has us care for those ...

You peer warily out of the single window in your zombie-proof steel box. The street seems deserted—except for a lone figure who is staring at you from a distance. Is it 2079, in the years after the ...

The man alleged to have shot two Pennsylvania police officers on Sept. 12 stalked them on a cool night under a gibbous moon. He hid in woods at the edge of game lands in rural Blooming Grove, Pa. And, ...