MinuteEarth provides an energetic and entertaining view of trends in earth's environment -- in just a few minutes, and with summer coming and more and more people outside, it's time to educate yourself about lightning. Here's a quick 2-minute video on how to survive a lightning strike, from the ...

After miraculously surviving for two months lost at sea aboard a 23-foot skiff, a Columbian man identified as Javier Eduardo Olaya was rescued after being rescued by a crew of merchants aboard the Panamanian. The stranded mariner, 29, was taken to Honolulu where he arrived in good condition after ...

Kellan Denny is lucky to be alive. Not many people can say they have survived a leopard attack, much less at six years old. The unprovoked attack happened - during a day at the N'tsiri Private Nature Reserve, close to Kruger National Park, South Africa - while Kellan was playing with his eight ...

While visiting a scenic part on the Great Wall, a man fell over the edge at the Jiankou section while attempting to climb down a ladder. The section he fell from is not fully developed. While climbing down, his backpack got caught, resulting in him losing his balance and toppling over and onto the ...

Video description from the National Geographic YouTube channel: Is it possible to survive being stuck in quicksand? Jonny Phillips risks life and limb to experience firsthand what it is like to slowly sink into quicksand—just a few feet away from an incoming tide.

Ever since TV shows like Survivor Man and Man vs Wild took to the airwaves there has been a surge of interest in wilderness survival. Although most of us will never find ourselves in such situations, it doesn’t stop people from dreaming. Who wouldn’t want to go on an expedition through the jungle ...

It's a story that defies reality. Josh Johnson spent 20-minutes laying at the bottom of Little Rock Lake on November 15, 2013. Johnson was an avid ice-fisherman and left about 7a.m. to go fishing leaving behind his 5-month pregnant wife. After a few hours fishing he packed up in the warming sun and ...

Outdoors360 first posted the story of Rob Konrad falling overboard almost a year ago, and here's what we knew at the time: The U.S. Coast Guard said Konrad was fishing alone when he fell over board. His boat was on autopilot and drifted away, and he swam nine miles in the “frigid waters” of the ...