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Many people wonder where the safest place to retreat is should a major disaster hit, an economic collapse occur, or the power grid go down for an extended period of time. In truth, there is no singular “safe place” where ...

Up to 200 million Americans live in areas that could be impacted by the Zika virus, and the head of the World Health Organization said Thursday that the virus is “spreading explosively” in the Americas. Regions in the US that ...

Late last year a cyberattack took down a large segment of the Ukrainian power grid, marking the first time that hackers anywhere in the world accomplished such a feat. Days later, in early January, North Korea claimed it had successfully ...

The terrorist atrocity in Paris has had an interesting side-effect here in America: Gun sales are on the rise. Media reports across the country indicate that gun dealers and authorities who issue weapons permits have seen a significant increase in ...

The horror that occurred in the streets of Paris on Friday could soon be repeated in American cities. There are good reasons to believe that ISIS, the organization French President Francois Hollande blames for the Paris attacks, soon could carry ...

The United States simply is not growing enough vegetables to meet its needs, data collected by the USDA’s Economic Research Service indicates. Around 1.65 cups of vegetables were available per person per day in the United States in 2013, even ...

More than half of the streams in America are contaminated with insecticides that have been linked to bee colony collapse, according to a new study. Researchers from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) found neonicotinoids, which some scientists blame for ...

When I recently visited my daughter, who is attending graduate student in Scotland, I was surprised to see eggs out on store shelves far away from a refrigerator. In fact, in one store, the eggs were stored neatly beside a ...

The financial crisis in Greece should be a wakeup call for Americans, as there are some disturbing parallels between that European country and the US. If you haven’t heard, banks in Greece – closed off and on for several weeks ...

Do you know where your food comes from? Unless you raise what goes on the dinner plate yourself, the answer to that question will likely be shocking. The USDA will soon permit chickens raised in America to be sent to ...