When people talk about getting ready for disaster, two groups always come up — preppers and survivalists. At first glance, they seem alike: both value self-reliance and readiness when life takes a ...

Leigh Price says living in a society where you can get groceries delivered to your door has made people less prepared for ...

The threat of losing access to the Internet or other tools is one many users don't think about, but it's actually easy to prepare an offline library.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a world where the unexpected can strike at any moment, a growing number of people are taking the concept of preparedness to ...

This story is part of the Grist series Doom/Mood exploring what the rise of doomerism means for our personal lives and the prospect of climate action more broadly. Some people spend more time than ...

Prosecutors say Vance Boelter was a “prepper” who told his family he went to war the day he killed a lawmaker and her husband. Troy McKinley was launching the first day of his Minnesota Prepper Expo ...

Homestead is real. And by “Homestead,” I mean the sprawling, largely self-contained and -sustaining compound in the Rocky Mountains that inspired and informed the best-selling post-apocalyptic Black ...

Some people spend more time than others imagining what they’ll do when the world ends. Survivalist movements have long urged adherents to focus on the details: How much food and water will you need if ...

Poland is the poster-child of Nato military spending but its patchy civil defences are pushing anxious citizens to build private bomb shelters and join online survivalist communities. Illustration: ...