The security of your home is always of paramount importance if you plan on bugging in during a major disaster scenario. This holds true regardless of whether you live on a rural homestead, a suburban home, or an urban apartment or condo. Beyond the physical protection having a secured home... Read more
Published on: 2024-03-18
Source: Ask a Prepper
The ‘Left Behind’ series emphasizes themes of authority, loyalty and sanctity, but they are preferences for order, not moral matters.... Read more
Published on: 2024-03-17
If you were to go searching for places to buy weapons that you could use to defend yourself in a crisis scenario, where would you go? If you’re like most people, you may answer your local sporting goods store, where you can buy firearms, ammunition, knives, bows and arrows, and... Read more
Published on: 2024-03-15
Source: Ask a Prepper
When it comes to food safety, the mantra of “wash before consuming” is deeply ingrained in our minds. However, some exceptions to this rule exist, and they might surprise you. Certain foods are best left unwashed for various reasons, ranging from preserving flavor to preventing spoilage. Here are 20 foods... Read more
Published on: 2024-03-14
Source: Ask a Prepper
Life will change drastically when martial law is declared. When this happens, the rule of law will be thrown out the window as the authorities take control and enforce their will with military and law enforcement. There will be a suspension of civil rights, military tribunals in place of civilian... Read more
Published on: 2024-03-12
Source: Ask a Prepper
I’ve always been a fan of Ron Melchiore. The guy has been living completely off-grid for the last 43 years. And in all this time a wire from the grid has never been connected to any of the homes he’s lived in. You could say he knows a thing or... Read more
Published on: 2024-03-11
Source: Ask a Prepper
As preppers, we accumulate and stockpile stuff. In fact it’s what we’re most famous for – the public perception of preppers is people with an arsenal of guns and a basement full of canned beans. In fact a lot of prepping is about acquiring skills and knowledge, but collecting and... Read more
Published on: 2024-03-08
Source: Ask a Prepper
Medication is a drag, but the containers that your pills come in don’t have to go and add more plastic to the local landfill. Nope, we have a bunch of different ideas on how to reuse, renew, and recycle your pill bottles. Let’s dive right in! Sneaky Cash Holder If... Read more
Published on: 2024-03-07
Source: Ask a Prepper
It is rare to find water in the wild which is safe to drink. Naturally occurring water will either be muddy, contain floating debris (including small debris), or have microscopic pathogens in it. Long gone is the day when we could safely drink water from a clear running stream or... Read more
Published on: 2024-03-05
Source: Ask a Prepper
Food is a key part of prepping. Without a stockpile of food to keep you going through at least the initial stages of a crisis, your chances of survival are very low. Unless you’re already completely self-sufficient – and not many of us are – you’ll be relying on that... Read more
Published on: 2024-03-04
Source: Ask a Prepper
An EMP attack can either happen because of an electromagnetic device being detonated in the air, or it can also result in the aftermath of a nuclear strike as well. When detonated high enough into the atmosphere, an EMP attack will result in the electrical power grid completely collapsing. There... Read more
Published on: 2024-03-01
Source: Ask a Prepper
We sampled sewage sludge from 13 wastewater treatment plants across three states. We found every resident adds microplastics to farmland, in dried sewage sludge (biosolids) used as fertiliser.... Read more
Published on: 2024-02-15
Phosphorus and nitrogen contribute to water pollution and cause harmful algal blooms. New research shows how mats of floating flower beds can take advantage of these nutrients while cleaning the water.... Read more
Published on: 2024-02-13
The inability of city authorities to enforce land-use regulations has allowed people to carry out ecologically unfriendly activities along the water bodies.... Read more
Published on: 2024-02-07
The 2024 elections may see a more intense end-times rhetoric, claims of divine support and a failure to condemn the rise in Christian nationalism, writes a religion scholar.... Read more
Published on: 2024-01-03
When ships sink, they add artificial structures to the seafloor that can quickly become diverse, ecologically important underwater communities.... Read more
Published on: 2023-12-19
Researchers are finding alarming concentrations of persistent pollutants such as PFAS in Australian dolphins. These record-breaking levels are cause for alarm.... Read more
Published on: 2023-11-23
Many mountain lakes in the Pyrenees have turned green, a phenomenon that is a warning about the multiple pressures on ecosystems.... Read more
Published on: 2023-11-16
‘Living materials’ made with genetically engineered bacteria and Jell-O-like gel could make pollutants in water bodies nontoxic.... Read more
Published on: 2023-11-07
Simply trying to avoid synthetic clothing won’t fix our microfibre pollution problem... Read more
Published on: 2023-10-24
The largest lake in the UK and Ireland has been blighted by toxic blue-green algae.... Read more
Published on: 2023-10-09
From open letters to congressional testimony, some AI leaders have stoked fears that the technology is a direct threat to humanity. The reality is less dramatic but perhaps more insidious.... Read more
Published on: 2023-07-05
A journey through McCarthy’s work is not for the fainthearted, nor the weak-stomached. But these tales of society’s outcasts and misfits are hugely rewarding.... Read more
Published on: 2023-06-16
Maybe it was a nuclear war, devastating climate change, or a killer virus. But if something caused people to disappear, imagine what would happen afterward.... Read more
Published on: 2023-06-12
The wall of a major dam in a part of southern Ukraine that Moscow controls collapsed Tuesday after a reported explosion, sending water gushing downriver and prompting dire warnings of ecological disaster as both sides in the war ordered residents to evacuate.... Read more
Published on: 2023-06-06
Source: AP World News
The end is often envisioned the same way: abruptly, hopelessly and completely. How does this constrain the range of possible solutions?... Read more
Published on: 2022-03-25
Apocalyptic thinking undermines democracy because it delegitimizes political opponents, turning them into enemies of God.... Read more
Published on: 2022-01-04
While shelves empty and the “booze trains” run, humanity’s ancient festival dream of equality and justice awaits.... Read more
Published on: 2021-12-08
Climate disasters are drawing comparisons to apocalyptic films. Their happy endings may have given us a false sense of hope.... Read more
Published on: 2021-08-10
If octopuses simply started evolving a smarter brain, what stops them from ruling over humans? Why has this not happened already? An expert explains what these cephalopods might be capable of.... Read more
Published on: 2021-03-10
Dead cities are enduring images in post-apocalyptic literature and cinema.... Read more
Published on: 2021-01-18
Humanity is destroying Earth’s ability to support complex life. But coming to grips with the magnitude of the problem is hard, even for experts.... Read more
Published on: 2021-01-13
The Christian tradition says the Antichrist will come before the end of the world as we know it. So it’s good to know some background on him … or her … or them.... Read more
Published on: 2020-10-19
The eerie San Francisco skyline evoked sci-fi movies for a reason. Filmmakers are increasingly using color grading to tinge their films with two hues, orange and teal, to unsettle viewers.... Read more
Published on: 2020-09-16