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Then, in May, an acute power shortage took hold in Ampere's home state, Tamil Nadu. The supply of rationed electricity in most of the state dropped from 13 or 14 hours a day to 8. Almost immediately, said the company's …

Commercial drivers in Tamale and its environs have been thrown out of business following the shortage of fuel at the various stations in the area. A visit by DAILY GUIDE to the Central Taxi Rank revealed dozens of taxi cabs …

When I've got food preservation questions–about food safety or I need a reliable recipe–I go to the National Center for Home Food Preservation. The Center provides science based food preservation advice and is funded by …

Fairview Gardens is offering a canning class on homemade soup making. You will be making a vegetable soup with fresh veggies from the farm. This will be an introduction to canning for some and for others who have taken …

Among the Top Trends we had forecast for 2010 was “Neo-Survivalism.” With so many once-dependable “Systems” taking a battering and breaking down and with the certainty that there will never be a return to “normal” we foresaw the need …

The reason for focusing on US-Russia nuclear war is simple: the US and Russia still have the overwhelming majority of the world's nuclear weapons. According to the Federation of American Scientists, the US now has 2,150 …

BREAKING: Chemical spill in downtown LA; evacuations ordered near S. Central Ave./4th St. https://t.co/m5GoXBGD.

Engineers are locked in a desperate battle to prevent a meltdown at a Japanese nuclear plant which has already exploded twice since being damaged in the tsunami.

Areas in Visayas and Mindanao that were hit by recent cyclones may have to take precautions against possible flash floods and landslides on New Year's Day, state weather forecasters said Friday.

A 17-year-old boy suspected of raping a woman in front of her boyfriend and young child was arrested Thursday after investigators matched his DNA to the crime, the King County Sheriff's Office reports. The robbery and rape …

As you can probably tell from the title, this post is going to be a clusterfuck. I don't know where to start, so I'll just talk about a book I'm currently reading, that got me back on some of these … Continue reading ?

Until recently, shelters could not deny homeless people beds because of bad behavior outside of a facility. But that changed amid calls to protect shelter workers and peaceful homeless people seeking refuge. Late last month …

Grow your own food with a simple system designed for urban dwellers. … By offering simple solutions like the Patch herb planter, Houston hopes to empower city dwellers to reap the rewards of growing their own food.

Couple Arrested Following Physical Confrontation With Best Buy Receipt-Checker. December 21, 2012 By Chris Morran. (Joel Zimmer). No one really likes to have their receipt checked when they leave a store — and some people will outright …

The Philippines is on track when it comes to its rice self-sufficiency goal for 2013, but the country may still import the commodity as buffer stock.

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it's the Week in Green. The planet.

CDC's pandemic preparedness efforts include ongoing surveillance of human and animal influenza viruses, risk assessments of influenza viruses with pandemic potential.

DAVIS — Groundbreaking efforts by PREDICT, a project led by the One Health Institute at the University of California, Davis, are highlighted today in the medical journal the Lancet as a model for a new, globally coordinated …

On Saturday, Jan. 5, Sandy Thomas will teach three separate introductory self-defense workshops for women. In each two-hour workshop, women will learn basic defense techniques that may be used against an unarmed …

Welcome to week 4 of Emergency Preparedness. The forth step to creating an emergency survival station for your home is putting together an important documents folder for each backpack, one emergency binder (for …

Natural catastrophes including US hurricane Sandy caused $160 billion (€122 billion) worth of damage in 2012, the world's leading reinsurer, Munich Re, estimated on Thursday.

Do you believe that economic trouble is coming in 2013? If so, you have a lot of company. According to a brand new Gallup poll that was just released, 65.

Environmental traumas are here. Global climate is a reality that is bringing extremes in weather as we have seen recently with the devastating impacts of Hurricane Sandy in the northeast of the USA. And in the last several …

Reblogged from Just Stop: I don't know how many people have actually read the opposition's blogs. There are many, most practically a part of the mainstream media. How did they get so big? That's simple. They are financed …

Reports of looting in areas of New York City and Long Island ravaged by Hurricane Sandy underscore the need for average citizens to have ready access to firearms for personal protection…

Nokia's been awfully fond of slapping its high-end hardware into polycarbonate bodies, but that trend may soon come to an end if a new report from The Verge..

The latest episode of "Doomsday Preppers" featured Bryan and he was certainly prepared, especially if preparedness is measured in ammo. In fact, Bryan has spent more than $100000 on an assembly line so he can make …

In Yellowstone, the rim of a supervolcano caldera is visible in the distance. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service. In 2012, director Roland Emmerich's love letter to the Mayan apocalypse (oh hey, wasn't that supposed …

By AWR Hawkins | From Breitbart.com | On Monday, December 24th, 2012. Some interesting news has broken in the wake of the latest push for gun control by President Obama and Senate Democrats: Obama sends his kids …

It might not keep you alive for long, but a Siberian firm is offering survival kits to anyone who fears the end of the world is nigh. And for everyone else, it makes for a fun stocking-filler come Christmas – provided the world hasn't …