As we all know, on Wednesday (January 27), a blown-up version of iPhone was released. Weighing 1.5 pounds, just 0.5 inch thick, and 11 inches tall, the iPad makes it possible to fool around with songs, watch movies, read books, and run all the supplementary tens of thousands of applications obtainable in the Apple’s depots. The question: How green is it?

Being aware of the curious public it faces, Apple soon declared the ‘green’ feature iPad has to offer. They admit that this awaited gadget follows Apple Environmental Policies, which means no malicious chemical like arsenic, mercury, nor PVC.

Some bloggers at Engadget claims Apple’s latest iPad was the Next Green Thing by its ‘highly recyclable’ feature and if you are not interested in awards at least get familiar with its great green attributes.

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After hiding from public spotlight for about eight years, Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden finally came out on Friday (January 29) to air his reprimands in an audio tape broadcasted by Al-Jazeera television. “All industrial nations, mainly the big ones, are responsible for the crisis of global warming,” bin Laden said in the message credited to him by the pan-Arab news channel found in Doha.

Furthermore, he criticized sharply on the U.S. government under former President George W. Bush for not agreeing the Kyoto protocol on fighting climate alteration. “Bush the son, and the Congress before him, rejected this agreement, only to satisfy the big companies,” he said. “This is a message to the whole world about those who are causing climate change, whether deliberately or not, and what we should do about that, discussing climate change is not an intellectual luxury, but a reality.”

He also was claiming U.S. dollar global usage as a proof of U.S. ‘slavery’ towards international population so public should stop using it as a global means of economic transaction.

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The night when final decision of Copenhagen Climate Talks was being discussed, hundreds of protesters are accusing world leaders for not reconciling an adequate climate agreement and letting them wait outside in the frosty cold. Now, a month after the day, they are seemed to be facing a whole new problem which is bigger and more important to many: how the outcome at Copenhagen changed the U.S. climate movement.

Steve Cochran, Environmental Defense Fund’s national climate campaign director also showed a disappointment. “No serious environmental problem, no serious social problem was ever fully solved in one go,” said Doniger. “In order to be effective you have to stick with it. You have to be willing to live with disappointment, and come back at it, rather than getting discouraged.”

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After getting to know that smoking is exceedingly bad for your healthiness, you get to know that inhaling someone else’s smoke is furthermore dreadful for your health. Now after getting to know both of them, you have to know that the ‘third-hand smoke’, which denotes the tobacco residue clinging to surfaces, is even more hazardous for you.

A study about the issue was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), and confirmed that the explanation behind the threat was actually coming to pass while the cigarette was burning. When it burns, nicotine is unconfined in the form of a vapor that accumulates and concentrates on indoor facades such as walls, carpeting, drapes and furniture, where it can linger for months. “Our study shows that when this residual nicotine reacts with ambient nitrous acid it forms carcinogenic tobacco-specific nitrosamines, or TSNAs,” said Hugo Destaillats, an analogous instigator of the study.

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A New study involving more than 60,000 Singaporeans was published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention and it shows that people who drink no less than two sugary sodas a week have an augmented threat of developing cancer of the pancreas, and researchers suspect the wrongdoer is sugar.

The approach to sink the risk of getting pancreatic cancer could be done only by dropping sugar consumption to its normal intake dosage. “A typical serving of soda is 20 ounces and contains 65 grams of sugar. By comparison, a typical serving of orange juice is eight ounces and contains 21 grams of sugar,” the source said.

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