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 ...

A Doomsday prepper has shared survival tips for World War III — including having a 90-day food supply and investing in communication gear. Derrick James, 50, who hails from rural Maine, started ...

A Montana woman known as the “Housewife prepper” is helping millions of people get ready for emergencies and be prepared in the event of a natural disaster, conflict with a foreign nation or another ...

A few weeks ago, I became convinced I ought to buy a compass. Also a tent, a LifeStraw, and solar chargers. Was I embarrassed about this 48-hour panic? Yes. But reading an op-ed at two in the morning ...

Survivalism is a primarily United States movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists or preppers) who actively prepare for emergencies, including possible disruptions in social or political ...

Like animals preparing for winter there is a community of people that actually think hard about being ready for whatever life throws at them. These are "preppers" – a term that is often unfairly used ...

In a world where the unexpected can strike at any moment, a growing number of people are taking the concept of preparedness to heart. Preppers, as they're known, have a knack for collecting items that ...