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

Looks like the USDA forgot its 'A' stands for all agriculture and not just beef this week, and Monsanto might have more power than the federal court system. It'

New dietary guidelines put a limit on added sugar, and changed their tune on dietary cholesterol. Good news for egg lovers.

This winter, the Arctic ice cap expanded to a total of 5.76 million square miles — one of the lowest areas on record since 1979.

The catastrophic collapse of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet is underway.

These are just a sample of the things we could lose if temperatures rise 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 200 years.

Actress names new addition Bear Blu Jarecki. Alicia Silverstone has become the latest mother in the current Hollywood baby boom, giving birth to a baby boy on M

Q: My friend is about to have a baby and I got "honored" with (aka: stuck) throwing the shower. She’s super green and doesn’t want a lot of pastel pink or b

Actress says that her heart has tripled in size. The great green Hollywood baby boom of 2011 has come to an end — with celebrities like Natalie Portman, Alici

MNN's family blogger takes a trip down memory lane, recalling life with a new baby before and after babywearing.

Nursing mom becomes breastfeeding hero by pumping during a half marathon.

Eco-architect-turned-full-time vintage aluminum trailer renovator Matthew Hofmann reveals an Airstream hotel in beautiful downtown Santa Barbara.

Squeeze on in for a tour of the COMET, a 1960s Avalon camper transformed into a solar-powered mobile abode by Mariah Coz.

After exhausting other price-sensible real estate options, a watercraft-loving Portland family settles on a 43-foot boat found on Craigslist for $14,000.

This week: Historic homes with gruesome backstories, a woman wages war against rodents and Martha Stewart pays her respects to American crafters.

A design firm best known for its repurposed cardboard creations tries its hand at small-scale adaptive reuse with absolutely gorgeous results.

An Olympic bid is as good a reason as any for the Parisian architectural landmark to get all gussied up.

Earth has never hosted 7 billion people all at once before, but according to the U.N., it may reach that spooky milestone by the end of this month.

The threat of heat waves and heavy precipitation are becoming especially severe, warns the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Institute of Medicine has raised the amount of potatoes, corn and peas it recommends you eat each week.

These tasty duos work together to pack a nutritional punch.

'The Good Stuff' on PBS makes compelling argument for chowing down on bugs.

Each day, the average American throws away enough food to keep another person from going hungry.

Saturated fat-lovers ,rejoice! A new study delivers some good news about eating full-fat cheeses.

Colorful diagrams help us understand how much of which foods we should be eating.

The zoo s hoping the 2-year-old male will pair up with the resident female and produce a cub.

Explore.org has affixed several high-definition cameras to locations in Churchill, Manitoba, the 'Polar Bear Capital of the World.'

Could an influx of Syrian asylum seekers upset Svalbard's human to polar bear ratio?

These engineers and musicians are hitting just the right notes.

Video: Music can spark creativity in math and science.

A recent study featuring blog posts from fictitious Italian politicians found the use of swear words made candidates sound more relatable.

Roughly a third of all scanned mummies contained no body inside.

The Bats and Churches Partnership aims to ease the sometimes fraught relationship between bats and the houses of worship they roost in.

The Swedish ritual of Årsgång or "year walk" is said to reveal visions of the future — if you can complete the requirements.

The ancient Romans saw 'Pluto's Gate' in what is now modern-day Pamukkale in Turkey as the entrance to the underworld. Now we know how it worked.

Grimbergen Abbey will use centuries-old books as inspiration to start brewing beer again after more than 200 years.

Automakers who wanted 2010 bragging rights had to field their cars this week or risk getting the news swallowed up by the Christmas rush. So a whole lot of peop

The latest Nissan Leaf commercial examines what life would be like if everything was powered by gasoline.

In response to Japan's power crunch resulting from the Fukushima disaster, Nissan unveils a two-way charging system that makes it possible for your home

AdWeek ranks its top 10 favorites for 2011, including Chipotle's sustainable food initiative and Nissan Leaf's all-electric world.

The stench of foul-smelling flowers attracts insects that aid in their pollination.

The Peaceful Belly Farm in Hailey, Idaho, found a unique way to advertise a plant sale.

Robots need to be tailored made for their nuclear plants, and the Fukushima plant was built prior to the adoption of robots.

There's one piece of good news from Japan: All the wind turbines survived the earthquake and are helping to power some regions of the country.

These maps, graphs and charts will answer your questions about radiation exposure and nuclear energy.

For some opponents of nuclear power, no amount of planning or patching is enough. Among those critics is actor Alec Baldwin, whose thoughts on the subject carry

Next-gen nuclear plants could provide carbon-free energy, but the painfully slow process of approving better, safer reactors — not to mention real anxiety ove

The nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant after the Japanese tsunami a year ago has made Americans more leery of nuclear power, according to a Yale Uni

Actors join other others in urging President Obama to stay true to his commitment to reduce nuclear weapons during this year's G8 summit.

A Japanese company is looking to profit from continuing fears about Fukushima radiation, by selling radiation-proof underwear.