Food news and items of interest from around the Web for your weekend reading.

Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch iPhone app has added Project FishMap. Now you can add green restaurants to a shared map to earn badges.

Tired of quizzing your waiter about where your seafood comes from? Here's a website and other tools that can help with your restaurant research before you go.

Our food blogger and her family find plenty of sustainable choices to munch on high above the New York City streets.

Taking a cue from the LEED certified building it’s housed in, Table 31 sources sustainably and creates dishes that contributes to Philadelphia being a dining

Formed by two wood-clad shipping containers, Skit 2014 is the ideal living arrangement for eremitic types who don't mind ladders and composting toilets.

Morieka Johnson helps you choose what to get at the grocery and the sushi bar. Plus: 10 fish to avoid.

You can still enjoy seafood, but make sure you buy sustainable, low-mercury options.

Mercury pollution and climate change are both unintended consequences of burning fossil fuels for centuries.

Tiny tempests above cracks in Arctic sea ice help pull down toxic mercury and ozone from the sky — an unexpected new source of mercury pollution.

Shocking lab results have convinced me to buy my tea elsewhere.

In a landmark decision, Europe restricts a popular pesticide linked to declining honeybee populations.

Unanimous decision rules in favor of Monsanto regarding the replanting of seeds from genetically modified soybeans.

A bee memorial service is being held this Sunday to remember the 50,000 pollinators killed by pesticides at an Oregon Target store.

A tarantula's toxic brew could serve as an insecticide against agricultural pests that consume the venom orally.

Meanwhile, a new Bayer-funded study disputes that its pesticide is killing bees.

Wild finches in the Galapagos made famous by Charles Darwin 'self-fumigate' their nests using human-made pesticides.

The pesticides, called neonicotinoids, are "highly likely" to be triggering bee deaths, say researchers.

The research reveals genetic clues about the insects' behavior, making it possible to target specific attributes.

Try these simple tips and bid goodbye to houseflies, those uninvited pests buzzing around your home.

From carpenter ants to crazy ants, we'll help you ID the insects that have invaded your space.

Humans and house spiders go way back, yet we rarely give this relationship much thought. Here's what to know about your arachnid roommates.

Researchers in the U.K. hope that prettying up fields with strips of wildflowers will attract pest-munching bugs.

The European Union has banned bee-harming neonicotinoids. The policy is expected to come into full force by the end of 2018.

A lot of people thought white and yellow dandelions were different plants.

Nature has a great way of giving clues to the clueless. When spring arrives a little earlier, and fall stays a bit later, it’s not necessarily a good thing.

Every once in a while, humanity manages to do something so sublimely awful that all we can do is laugh. Next month, we’ll mark the 40th anniversary of one of

Sure, it's backed by Apple's Tim Cook. But would you spend $300 on a shower apparatus?

'Where the River Runs' is a pop-up meadow with a deep environmental message.

It might seem counterintuitive, but Anheuser-Busch and The Nature Conservancy are working together to protect a Colorado watershed by cutting down trees.

A carnivorous plant, desert beetle and cactus are behind a revolutionary new material that can collect water out of thin air.

When you set up a rain barrel system at your house, you can save water and save money on your utilities.

Grey water — water from kitchen or bathroom sinks, bathtubs, or washing machines — can safely be captured and rerouted to the garden. Here's how.

Santa Monica's iconic amusement pier is the site of this year's Land Art Generator Initiative. The Pipe is an offshore desalination concept that's making waves.

Thanks to massive water-diversion and salt-evaporation projects, satellite images show how the Dead Sea is gradually living up to its name.

Matthew Mazzotta's installation marries rainwater harvesting with the deeply pacifying sound of raindrops bouncing off a tin roof.

With only the sun for energy, it can collect 3 liters of water a day.

Spongy water harvester prototype that uses only sunlight was tested successfully in the Arizona desert.

In June 2012, a network of 16,000 computers trained itself to recognize a cat by looking at 10 million images from YouTube videos.

Like the flu, some ideas get a foothold in our heads and then we propagate it. And now with social media, you subject yourself to everyone's thought germs.

When people get together and share knowledge and resources, they can do wonders.

When fingerprints fail, a map of your brainwaves could help keep your cyberworld safe.

Study reveals what you can do to increase the likelihood of a speedy reply.

The sieve of Eratosthenes is an ancient tool for finding primes, but it might get a boost by modern computing.

Reality can never be perfectly simulated if you take into consideration quantum complexity.

Using tiny eyewear, researchers tricked the insects into revealing secrets that could lead to simpler visual processing in robots.

Donations to environmental organizations from many businesses to remain consistent in 2009.

A Silicon Valley investor with a penchant for green technology raised $1 billion for a new venture fund. His vision: science experiments and clean technologies

Jimmy Fallon is joined by Ladysmith Black Mambazo as they sing an ode to Fair Trade and Ben & Jerry's.

You pay only shipping for a set of 15 organic, fair trade chocolates and educational cards that your kids can give out to visitors.