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

An heirloom tomato has been named after Michael Pollan. The "Michael Pollan" tomato is an oddly shaped green and yellow tomato.

Video: Join Danielle V as she plans an eco-friendly and socially conscious Super Bowl party.

This holiday season, green your home (and maybe your guests) with these five tips to boost your eco-hospitality.

Food news and items of interest from around the Web — Giada de Laurentiis, Jersey Girl Cooks and weeknight dinner parties.

With a major summertime 'drinking holiday' just around the bend, make sure that you have a few libation-related odds and ends on hand for when your thirsty part

In a down economy, weddings for 2 instead of 200 are on the upswing (and they're more eco-friendly and personal, too).

Fire lookout towers found in numerous national forests have been converted into campsites-in-the-sky.

Chesapeake Energy's Aubrey McClendon responds to a NYT report that suggests the natural gas industry is part of a Ponzi scheme.

Working eight hours a day for two years, Jalandhar Nayak cut nearly five miles of road through the mountainous terrain of eastern India.

President Obama calls on Congress to end the oil industry subsidies.

Two Toes, the original wiley coyote of the American West, is on the verge of howling on the silver screen.

Donating money to help the bees is as easy as adding a mustache to your cat's (or your friend's) photo.

Shuttle Endeavour touched down safely at the Kennedy Space Center early Wednesday morning, completing its final mission to space.

NASA deployed a few high-flying paparazzi to Hollywood to scout out the best photo spots for next month's arrival of one of its biggest stars: space shuttle End

As the space shuttle Endeavor is poised to come to Los Angeles, crews will remove about 400 trees to make room for its passage.

Space shuttle Endeavour's trip to California has been delayed by a weather front in its way.

Space shuttle Endeavour's highly anticipated arrival in Los Angeles has been deferred by a day.

The space shuttle Endeavour will begin a three-day trip across the United States on Sept. 19, and you can catch some of that journey —the final piggyback flig

The space shuttle Endeavour takes to the skies above California for its last-ever flight today, Sept. 21, giving observers from Sacramento to Los Angeles a one

Space shuttle Endeavour, now a permanent resident of the state of California, has traded its winged chariot for a set of custom wheels.

The iconic space shuttle Endeavour, in commission for 20 years, has arrived at a museum in LA, making that its home for the foreseeable future.

Space shuttle Endeavour, you're a star. A captivating new time-lapse movie has condensed Endeavour's recent three-day road trip to a Los Angeles museum into mer

Amidst much fanfare, the new museum display featuring retired space shuttle Endeavour opened to the media and invited guests here on Oct. 30.

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

Chesapeake Energy, which has one of the largest natural gas recovery operations in the country, halts all fracking in the state after a spill on the eve of the

But environmental groups say oil is still coming ashore and more work needs to be done.

Tennessee Valley Authority announces plans for economic development projects in Roane County, the site of last December’s coal ash spill.

Your social network predicts your health and wellness more than your fitness tracker, study finds.

Meet 15 rare animal species whose futures could be determined — for better or worse — in 2015.

Here's a graphical glimpse at America's most endangered wildlife, where they live and how many are left.

Mankind does some weird things to save animals from extinction.

Endemic species run a higher risk of extinction because of their geographic isolation.

Seven species of Hawaiian pollinators are the first bees added to the U.S. endangered species list — but they're unlikely to be the last.

3 MNN Twitter fans will win a DVD of 'The End of the Line,' a documentary about overfishing that is narrated by Ted Danson.

Spruce up your backyard with this must-have bird feeder.

Become a fan and win this wine and cheese picnic basket set with accessories.

Learn the trick to making mulled wine without burning off all the alcohol in this video for a drink that’s perfect for this weekend between the big holidays.

What happens when you heat up a Rum Cow? It becomes a soul-warming, winter cocktail.

Toast those you love with this pleasing Prosecco that won’t break your budget.

In an unexpected offshoot of the local food movement, distilleries are embracing farming.

Make your sipping simple this holiday weekend with these easy-to-throw-together drinks.

Open up the liquor cabinet, pull out your shaker, and celebrate your hard work with a cocktail.

We use calendars to keep track of our days, our weeks and our years. But how much do we really know about them?

Google lays out a plan to make renewable energy cheaper than coal.

The 57,000-acre San Andres Refuge, which works to restore desert bighorn sheep, launched its quest for energy independence in 2005 and has implemented several s

This weekend will feature several overlapping events meant to combat a growing plague of garbage around the world.

Malaysia and the Philippines are forcefully rejecting trash from wealthier countries.

Getting along with neighbors can yield big health benefits for birds, a new study finds. It's probably good for us, too.

Nintendo gets the lowest score on the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics for its failure to address e-waste or cut CO2 emissions.