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As winter holidays are approaching, NRDC officials make a shocking statement, meant to keep us far away from artificial trees, commercialized on a large scale especially during this time of year. The organization reveals that these toxic replacements are far from being eco-conscious, since they are often made of lea... |
23 December 2011
04:58 GMT |
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A new reports issued by a team of experts from the Environmental Health Strategy Center indicates that over 650 brand name products keep a terrible secret. Scientists reached the conclusion that they contain two hormone-disrupting toxic chemicals that can threaten the wellbeing of their consumers. After reading t... |
14 December 2011
04:19 GMT |
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A rich country's trash is a poor nation's treasure. Mexico is definitely not an exception to this rule, since the wellbeing of its financially-challenged inhabitants is threatened by no-longer needed lead batteries imported from the US.
Mexico has increased the number of imported batteries while also scali... |
9 December 2011
03:28 GMT |
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A new research carried out by biologists at Emory University, concluded that monarch butterflies use medicinal plants to treat their offspring for disease.Monarch butterflies migrate each year from the United States to Mexico and offer spectacular images with the black, white and orange pattern of their wings.Like fo... |
11 October 2010
05:04 GMT |
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With all the buzz surrounding the DirectX 11-capable Fermi graphics adapters from NVIDIA, which are still in short supply unfortunately, the AMD war camp was not bound to stay docile for long. In fact, AMD's partners have been known to be working on special editions of the HD 5970, meant to blast any semblance o... |
27 April 2010
02:57 GMT |
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Now that NVIDIA is finally getting very close to launching its own DirectX 11-capable graphics adapters, AMD's partners are preparing devices meant to hold their own against the GTX 470 and GTX 480. In fact, a recently leaked set of benchmarks seems to point out a clear superiority of the GTX 480 compared with t... |
23 March 2010
04:01 GMT |
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Not so long ago, Sapphire was revealed to be gearing up to launch the Toxic HD 5850 and it seems that the company decided not to let end-users wait too long before the official announcement. In fact, the company released not one but two different models of the ATI Radeon HD 5850 graphics card, namely the Radeon HD 58... |
18 February 2010
09:16 GMT |
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Sapphire has been implementing its Vapor-X treatment into whichever of its cards saw a significant popularity. One such card is AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5850 that Sapphire has redesigned with a custom PCB and is going to soon launch as part of its Toxic Series. The card has a custom-built PCB and is factory overclock... |
12 February 2010
09:55 GMT |
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Greenpeace has posted a new chart showing which of the 18 companies indexed by the organization have eliminated the most harmful chemicals from their product ranges. Scoring four gold stars, Apple takes first place in the ranking, getting praised by the non-governmental organization for removing many toxic chemicals ... |
8 January 2010
06:53 GMT |
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Apple ranks around the middle of the scale in the latest edition of the Guide to Greener Electronics. However, the company recently claimed its efforts to stay green were not reflected by the chart, with Greenpeace now admitting the figures were put together before Apple’s recent publication of its green initia... |
2 October 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Apple has updated its Environment section, where visitors of it website can get the full scoop on the company’s environmental footprint. On the updated section, visitors can find out what the Mac maker is doing to lessen its impact on the planet, and even our own, as consumers. BusinessWeek cites Apple executi... |
25 September 2009
03:07 GMT |
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While Apple touts its new products as being even greener than their predecessors, the latest Greenpeace survey says otherwise. Although it got high marks for reducing toxic chemicals, the Mac maker scored low in the organization’s Guide to Greener electronics for not supporting global recycling initiatives or u... |
2 July 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Coming to meet a growing demand for higher-performance graphics solutions, Sapphire Technology has announced today the expansion of its latest Radeon graphics cards, with the introduction of the new HD 4980 Toxic Edition and the HD 4890 Vapor-X. Both cards integrate AMD's latest HD 4890 graphics processing unit ... |
26 May 2009
09:40 GMT |
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In this 11th edition of the Guide to Greener Electronics, Greenpeace has penalized corporate IT vendors for failing to commit to eliminating PVC (polyvinyl chloride) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from their products by the end of this year. Apple climbed four spots on the ranking (now on tenth place) for suc... |
2 April 2009
05:42 GMT |
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Sunnyvale, California-based AMD is expected to update its graphics card offering with the introduction of the new RV790-based Radeon HD4890 graphics accelerator. According to current rumors, the new card should be officially announced on April 2, which will enable a number of the company's partners to come out w... |
31 March 2009
06:30 GMT |
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Greenpeace again reacted positively to Apple's ongoing efforts of removing PVC and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from some products, but noted that the Mac maker would have to completely phase-out such elements to score higher on the Guide to Greener Electronics. Apple is also facing some deadlines in its i... |
26 November 2008
05:51 GMT |
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With Steve Jobs posting an open message on the company's web site regarding Apple's efforts to stay green, Greenpeace acknowledged that the internal cables in new MacBooks now contain no PVC. Still, the organization wants Apple to apply this across the whole notebook, not just the cables. Apple, for its par... |
17 October 2008
06:07 GMT |
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The recent resolution of the Bush administration managed to lift the ban on the exploitation of uranium mines in the Grand Canyon. This could cause the contamination of the Colorado river's water, severe wildlife damage and increased toxicity of the area.According to the associated news release, a last year'... |
17 October 2008
05:59 GMT |
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Apple's chief executive officer, Steve Jobs, has published the company's environmental plans revealing how Apple managed to remove most of the toxic chemicals in its new notebook line, but also how recycling is handled, with the overall carbon footprint being diminished.Steve Jobs' open message begins ... |
17 October 2008
04:35 GMT |
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Apple's MacBook-focused event taking place yesterday at its Cupertino headquarters saw the release of several new notebooks, as well as a new, 24-inch Cinema Display. Apple's chief executive, Steve Jobs, stated that the company had made considerable efforts to further reduce its impact on the environment. D... |
15 October 2008
07:23 GMT |
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A French newspaper’s claim that Mac Pros are emitting toxic odors, including benzene, has been dismissed by Apple. Spokesman Bill Evans has told Macworld that, while the company is still investigating these allegations, there is no indication so far that Mac Pros emit toxic fumes.According to MacRumors, a scien... |
2 October 2008
04:06 GMT |
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If you are planning to upgrade your desktop computer systems with one of the latest graphics cards on the market, and you haven't made a decision yet about which one to go for, then maybe you should consider waiting just a bit longer. That is because Sapphire, one of ATI's largest board partners, is about t... |
16 September 2008
05:16 GMT |
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We had to wait quite some time before we finally got to see the latest Sapphire graphics card, but chances are it may have all been worth it. Of course, we are talking about the highly anticipated HD 4850 TOXIC Edition, a card that has been so hyped that it should practically sell the moment it hits the store shelves... |
17 July 2008
06:29 GMT |
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These past few days, graphics card maker Sapphire has been showered with quite some attention from the online media, and that happened especially ever since AMD unleashed the new RV770-based graphics card lineup. But Sapphire is also expected to release a card based on AMD's mid-range HD 4850 GPU, which is said ... |
10 July 2008
04:43 GMT |
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The chemical war is far from being invented by people. It has been employed for over 100 Ma by the bombardier beetles, over 500 species, included in the Carabidae family - tribes Brachinini, Paussini, Ozaenini, or Metriini. They can fire a mixture of chemicals from special glands in their posterior. The beetles use a... |
2 April 2008
04:17 GMT |
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You might have seen the trick in SF movies: hibernating space navigators go to their target locations, located at distances of light years, while asleep, in an arrested animation, just like bacteria and tardigrades do. But an arrested metabolism could save lives not only in space, but on Earth too.Now, the secret was... |
28 March 2008
18:21 GMT |
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Newts and salamanders may look cute and helpless, but you'd be surprised to know that they produce one of the most powerful toxins for protection in the amphibian world. Still, the common garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) of North America indulge in rough-skinned newts (Taricha granulosa), considered the most ... |
20 March 2008
05:33 GMT |
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The discovery of the tropical alga Caulerpa taxifolia in the Mediterranean Sea, at the end of the '80s, triggered a great warning signal. The "killer alga" was declared "harmful for the Mediterranean ecosystem", and its rapid reproduction an "ecological catastrophe". The alga appeared to have escaped from the Mo... |
25 February 2008
08:57 GMT |
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The world we live in is full of synthetic chemicals, most of which are toxic. They are encountered from our food to all the objects we touch. No wonder the explosion of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) cases (see: http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Disease-of-the-Technology-MCS-74254.shtml). But if you think that ... |
9 February 2008
07:07 GMT |
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1. In Eastern Europe and Italy, mushroom harvesting is a tradition, and the annual number of intoxication cases and deaths is high. Dishes based on wild mushrooms are something common, but there are about 250 species of toxic mushrooms growing in Europe. The most dangerous are death cap (Amanita phalloides) and destr... |
3 December 2007
14:16 GMT |
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There may be an economical boom in China, but do cheap products respect consumers' life? After toxic compounds were found in Chinese toothpaste and so-called "herbal drugs", now the cause of the toxicity of pet food brought from China has been explained by an UC Davis team in a research published in the Journal ... |
29 November 2007
04:22 GMT |
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Even if Beethoven was deaf, he 'listened' to his doctor. But this proved even worse, as his doctor poisoned him. With lead. A Viennese forensic expert shows that the composer's physician unwittingly overdosed the genius with the toxic metal. It was clear that the master had been very ill years before h... |
30 August 2007
06:11 GMT |
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Plastic is everywhere around us, and nowadays we almost drink from nothing else than plastic containers. It's so fancy to carry with you a plastic bottle and drink your water / juice / soda little by little. But while US bottled water sales are going up by an annual 9.7 %, on a market estimated at approximately ... |
16 August 2007
07:06 GMT |
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Mushrooms are yummy but sometimes they can be more than that. That's why a team at the University of Warwick is co-ordinating a global effort to achieve the genome sequencing of the most important mushrooms for the westerners: button or common mushroom (Agaricus bisporus). Decoding the genetic make up of the mus... |
18 July 2007
04:14 GMT |
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The chlorine insecticides, like DDT, are known to move through the food chain and to make bald eagle lay paper thin shelled eggs or poison the milk of the Inuit (Eskimo) women. The amounts thrown on the fields may look minute but once these carcinogens enter the food chain in small levels, starting with the microscop... |
13 July 2007
05:10 GMT |
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Gulf War Syndrome characterizes a complex of physical and mental symptoms affecting150,000 Gulf War veterans. The syndrome was largely dismissed by doctors but now it appears increasingly evident that it could have been provoked by low-level exposure to the poisonous gas sarin, famous due to its employment by the Aum... |
19 May 2007
07:04 GMT |
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A few days ago I mentioned that water cooled ATI HD 2900XT versions are expected to be available in two weeks time. However, Sapphire doesn't seem to like the waiting part and already announces its own water cooled solution: the HD 2900XT TOXIC edition.Known for its quality water cooling systems, Sapphire extend... |
15 May 2007
09:01 GMT |
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In the constant struggle between prey and predators, plants can employ the most disgusting chemical methods to keep away vegetarians. Even so, co-evolution can make herbivores bypass these defenses. Such is the case of a species of fruit fly, Drosophila sechellia, for example, which enjoys the fruit of a Polynesian s... |
1 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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This is the symbol of death. Since Middle Ages, arsenic and its compounds are known as especially powerful toxins. In large doses, arsenic impairs ATP production and the citric acid cycle, thus inhibiting cell respiration while increased hydrogen peroxide rises the oxidative stress. Arsenic poisoning is induces by mu... |
10 April 2007
08:35 GMT |
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You know the specific chemical plastic aroma emitted by any new car...These odors are regularly emitted from plastics, synthetic fabrics, upholstery, carpets, adhesives, paints, cleaning materials and other sources and are volatile organic chemicals. Only a small percentage of these volatile organic molecules are obv... |
10 April 2007
04:31 GMT |
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Each day, more persons accusing chronic pains turn their attention to the mysterious homeopathy. In countries like Germany, France or UK, 30-70 % of the patients have visited at least once a homeopath. This science was developed by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) and is not a natural medicine, like ... |
6 April 2007
09:48 GMT |
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They say a rose can be venomous... Even if a beautiful woman can have a nasty character, there are indeed beautiful flowers that can be toxic. And if the nectar from these flowers would reach the honey you enjoy every morning ...It is still a puzzle for the researchers why many spring flowers displaying bright advert... |
2 April 2007
05:14 GMT |
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Today, the problem of bioacumulation of heavy metals in the organisms is severe. Copper, cadmium, zinc, tin, mercury are found in the anthropic or human affected ecosystems in levels that are 10 times higher than in nature. Heavy metals abound around us in tiles (rich in cadmium and zinc), fertilizers (copper), pesti... |
23 March 2007
11:50 GMT |
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You could be amazed by what mussels can do. These mollusks live in seas and freshwaters. Scientists are fascinated since ever by how these beings attach themselves to the rocks. The animals can resist to the power of the waves or hungry predators and are almost impossible to pull out.How do they do it?When the young ... |
15 March 2007
12:12 GMT |
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