It seems like Nintendo wasn't going to take all the allegations from Greenpeace sitting down. In the recent "Playing Dirty" report released by the environmentalist group, it outlined how major video game console manufacturers failed to comply with safety regulation in creating environmentally friendly products. You can find out Nintendo's response in our full article after the jump.

Greenpeace recently poured the hate on Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft for their negligence in rolling out environmentally friendly hardware. Entitled "Playing Dirty", a recent document released by the environmentalist group explained how the three companies still fail to ensure that their current line of consoles were free of unsafe chemicals and materials. Find out the details of this document by reading our full story on it.

In life, it helps to have someone who can hold you accountable for your actions. In the case of electronics companies, it seems that Greenpeace is their accountability partner. The organization has recently released the current company rankings in its Greener Electronics Scale. To find out how certain companies fared, get "green-minded" and turn to the full article after the jump.

It is really nice to know that current technologies are also being used to save Earth rather than help destroy it. For example, flying robots are being utilized by scientists to save the humpback whales.

This move was actually prompted by Japan's policy of killing whales for research and studies. Australia, now, is trying to determine the exact count of the said animals that migrated in its territory. More on this after the jump!

Whaling is one of the Japanese maritime industry's most celebrated increments. The international community and other environmental groups, however, aren't too happy about it. Greenpeace has been patrolling the Antarctic in pursuit of illegal Nippon vessels, and its ship Esperanza has just completed a 42,000 mile expedition. Esperanza says the fight to protect the large sea mammals is far from over, and you'll know why in the full article.

The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is a vast stretch of ocean near Antarctica, 50 million square kilometers in size and ordained as a whaling-free zone by the International Whaling Commission. Unfortunately, the strict zero-whaling rule isn't honored apparently as the Greenpeace ship called the Esperanza spotted a Japanese whaling fleet within the sanctuary. What followed was a game of cat and mouse, and Greenpeace took the field...for now.

It appears Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have a new field to do battle in, and it isn't a joint brawl game. Greenpeace is out to monitor the gaming giants' e-trash and get the big three to pitch in for Mother Earth's sake. A tale of early leads, three console tortoises in a hare's race, and Mario, Kratos, and Master Chief cinematic ensembles coming at you at the full story.

Greenpeace has released their "Guide to Greener Electronics" which scores the 18 top manufacturers of gadgets and devices according to their policies on toxic chemicals and recycling.

Apple, which was under Greenpeace's black books for the iPhone, got a better score this time around. Among the three console manufacturers, Sony scored the best. Microsoft was third to the last and Nintendo was in last place (because both are new entries to the guide).

Checking if Steve Jobs and Apple made good in their promise to be clean and green with their products, environmentalist group Greenpeace got themselves an 8GB iPhone, shipped it to their UK research laboratory, dismantled it, and checked if the iPhone is indeed environmentally sound.

The verdict? Greenpeace has determined that there's still hazardous chemicals found in the iPhone.

One of the toxic chemicals found in the iPhone - phthalates - is not banned for use in mobile phones, but has been classified as "toxic to reproduction, category 2" due to their interference to mammalian reproduction. Toxic phthalates are banned from toys in Europe.

Brominated flame retardants were also found in the iPhone. It should be mentioned at this point that Jobs mentioned in his environmental press release that Apple already adhered to the restrictions of using brominated flame retardants.

On a slightly related (and humorous) note, we can also see the iPhone's chemicals in action in Blendtec's Will It Blend site. Did these hazardous chemicals cause the iPhone to go "boom"? Just a little something to think about, of course.


Check out the video of Greenpeace's iPhone laboratory testing after the jump!

The BBC recently did a report series regarding the most dangerous places to eat in the world. One of the sites chosen and visited by the crew was Chernobyl, Ukraine - the site of the worst nuclear disaster man has ever known.

Two decades ago, the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was blown sky-high, setting fire to the building and poisoning the land and air with harmful levels of radiation. The members of the British media outfit were astounded to find out that people were not only working in the area - thousands are actually living there.

Both the BBC and the tour guides advised visitors not to eat any food served within the Alienated Zone's radius. Food, especially vegetation, was especially susceptible to radioactive contamination and can cause diseases to those who eat them. The locals, however, seem to disregard the warnings of the law and of health professionals. A lot of them continue to stay in the area and eat resources there.

The rationale of Chernobyl's citizens is simple: Divine protection has kept them alive for 20 years now, why should they stop eating their food? Others even believe that drinking vodka will wash the radiation off the body. Doctors say that these are very dangerous mindsets that will be regretted soon. There have been around 4,000 casualties since the accident occurred in the late 80's.

According to the Ukraine government, there have been around 4,000 casualties since the accident in the late 80s. Greenpeace, however, tells another tale. According to the organization, almost 300,000 people have developed radiation-related cancers and some 90,000 of them have fatal cancers.

Despite this, local government units in the surrounding locales of Chernobyl encourage everyone from citizens to tourists to eat. When the mayor was told that an average mushroom in the area carried 800 percent more radiation than the safety threshold, he simply said, "It doesn't matter."