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As a survivalist, adventurer, and Chief Scout, Bear Grylls has had to light many fires for his survival and comfort over the years, and he has given a lot of advice on different ways to light fires as well. If you’ve gone camping or have ever found yourself in a survival situation outdoors, you know [...]

Going barefoot is good for your body and your soul. Here’s the science behind grounding or earthing and how it works.

The National Park has seen new record crowds of visitors. The National Park Service says Yellowstone saw 847,864 tourists in June.

How does a ten-month road trip hitting 42 National Park units through 25 states sound to you? Now imagine doing that as a family of six.

This week on Running Wild, Bear Grylls and Cynthia Erivo are “defying gravity” as they traverse a variety of caves and other icy terrain. On top of the highest peaks in Wales, where Grylls trained for the British Special Forces, he teaches the singer-actress to rappel through the caves on her own with an oxygen [...]

For his survival expeditions and TV shows, Bear Grylls has spent time in some of the world’s most inhospitable landscapes, and this includes deserts. He says he has been in the world’s toughest and that they are “brutal, unforgiving wildernesses to be in.” He also says that a really hot desert will kill you faster [...]

Bear Grylls is teaching essential survival skills to the world’s biggest celebrities on the second season of Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge (Sundays on National Geographic at 9/8c). This week, he’s meeting up with Benedict Cumberbatch on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Following the learning phase of their two-day adventure, which includes [...]

In the eighth and final episode of I Survived Bear Grylls, Season 2, the survivalist and toughest man on the planet is making sure whoever wins his contest really puts in the work to earn the $10,000 grand prize. “We’re about to find out if you’re as tough as you think you are,” Bear tells [...]

As the climate changes and certain parts of the world get wetter, hotter, and far more humid than usual, it brings an extra unpleasant side effect: More mosquitos.  According to an analysis from Climate Central, most regions of the United States experienced an increase in the average number of mosquito days per year between 1979 [...]