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Woman Survives 19 Hours in Sea Off Maui

A 49-year-old woman held onto a water container to stay afloat for 19 hours until she was rescued from choppy ocean waters a mile off Maui, she said.

Australian Climber Revived on Mt. Everest

An Australian mountaineer who had been believed dead near the summit of Mount Everest has been revived and has come part way down the mountain, reports said Saturday.

The Vine

Moist windows save trapped cat

Source: Australian News Network

A CAT was forced to lick condensation off windows to survive after being accidentally locked in a garden shed for more than two months. The owner of Emmy the cat thought she had died after spending weeks looking for her in the UK town of Torquay, in Devon, the Daily Mail reporte …

Introducing: New Horizons - A Newsvine Group Concerned with the Expansion of the Human Race Beyond Earth.

Over 100,000 years ago a group of early Humans pushed out northwards from the area of the globe we now know as Eastern Africa, possibly around the Ethiopian Region. The reasons for the exodus are not entirely known, but we can infer possible cause for their desire to expand beyon …

Stay Married and Save the Planet

Source: Breakpoint

The researchers calculated that if divorced couples had stayed married, the "United States would have saved 73 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity and 627 BILLION gallons of water"—and that's in 2005 alone.

We're All Going to Die

Source: News at Nature

As a scientific journalist, one of my jobs seems to be telling you what you're going to die of this week.

Human Survival: Are We Ignoring The Ultimate Moral-Values Issue?

Source: CounterCulture

The data is in: Global warming is becoming the ultimate moral-values issue. Both religious and political leaders must mobilize immediately to address it. No society is more reluctant to accept these two claims than the United States.

Bacterial Collective Signalling Promotes Survival

Source: Microbiology

Although unicellular, bacteria are highly interactive and employ a range of cell-to-cell communication or 'quorum sensing (QS)' systems for promoting collective behaviour within a population.

So Cute You Could Just Eat Them Up. Literally.

Source: Science: Current Issue

Most likely, your mother nurtured you for years and you never worried that when you came home from kindergarten, she'd gobble you up. But many animals do occasionally eat their young, including many that also are attentive parents.

Study finds some overweight people live longer

Source: Telegraph

Being a little overweight may actually protect people against dying prematurely from a range of diseases, researchers have discovered.

Be Prepared!

I was never actually a member of the Scouts, but I've always regarded their motto as being eminently sensible. 'Be Prepared!', they advise, and prepared is what I try to be.

Woman survives 19 hours in sea off Maui

Source: Yahoo! News

UKUMEHAME, Hawaii - A 49-year-old woman held onto a water container to stay afloat for 19 hours until she was rescued from choppy ocean waters a mile off Maui, she said. Lillian Ruth Simpson, of Juneau, Alaska, told the Maui News that she also wrapped her bathing suit top aro …

Woman Survives 19 Hours In Sea Off Maui

Source: Yahoo! News

A 49-year-old woman held onto a water container to stay afloat for 19 hours until she was rescued from choppy ocean waters a mile off Maui, she said.

Essential Wilderness Survival Tips

Source: quazen.com

These are essential tips that you need to know if you want to survive in the wilderness. This guide could very well save your life.

From 1994: Pilot Survives More Than Two Weeks in Sierra Nevadas After Crash

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

It is true that Steve Fossett may not be alive out there. But until searchers discover the truth, there is always hope. This article talks about another pilot, a man who survived two weeks in the Sierras after a crash due to wind shear.

Teen Girls in Inflatable Dinghy Survive 50 Turbulent Hours on Canadian Lake

Source: breitbart.tv

"We were just talking about stuff. I said, 'Whoa, we're getting pretty far away, Jamie. We should start heading back in.' "

Military Survival Manual Links, Information and Gear Suggestions

There are a couple of really valuable links that I'm going to clue everyone in on, its two survival manuals: First is the Multiservice Procedures for Survival, Evasion, and Recovery And second is U.S. Army Survival Manual FM 21-76

Elderly Woman Survives Two Weeks Lost in Oregon Woods

Source: The Buffalo News

A woman in her seventies has astounded doctors by surviving nearly two weeks in the thick woods of Eastern Oregon's rugged Wallowa Mountains. Doctors said Doris Anderson was hours from death when found on Thursday, with a body temperature that had dropped to 90 degrees.

Building a New Home Someday? Ten Futuristic Ideas You Might Consider

Welcome to the 21st century. Welcome to blackouts, brownouts, tainted ground water, security issues, high energy costs, wildfires, pandemics, crazy weather, and a shaky economic future. Not exactly life with the Jetsons.

UK cancer survival rates are among the worst in Europe

Source: The Times

Cancer patients in almost all European countries survive longer after diagnosis than those in the UK. Only Eastern Europe does worse.

Over-worked, time-poor: who's at fault?

Source: MercatorNet

In the mythology of the global village, Australia is the land of the laid-back lifestyle where you can have your barbecued prawns (shrimp, to North American readers) and eat them too.

Silent Hill - Survival Horror Games

Source:

This adaptation of the hugely popular Silent Hill game starts out a suffocating fog of creepiness wrapped around a memorably malevolent child spirit, but squanders its meticulously established atmosphere on a lengthy climactic sequence that owes a significant debt of inspiration  …

At OpEdNews: Of Good and Evil

Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

A glance at Good and Evil, the difference between the two having been deliberately blurred of late -

How Long Do You Really Need to Boil Water to Make it Safe to Drink?

Source: Survival Topics

Throughout the world many people die from waterborne diseases. Water is routinely boiled in order to make it safe to drink. Whole forests have been cut down to obtain the necessary fuel. But how long does water need to be boiled to make it safe? 10-minutes? 5? 1?.

A guilty secret exposed - Zimbabwe gold

Source: The First Post

An astonishing confidential memorandum, which reveals a wholesale conspiracy between the Zimbabwean government and the police to cover up the deaths of illegal gold-miners, has been seen by The First Post.

What do you carry in the woods?

It never seems like we have everything we need with us when we go out into the woods, or off wandering the hills. Some will tell you that you need everything you can carry, other will tell you that less is more.

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