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How safe is your iPhone? A consumer guide to limit cell phone radiation
green LA girl —
... Love your iPhone? Keep your phone love affair healthy by texting more and talking less. That’s one of the tips from eco-nonprofit Environmental Working Group, which today released an easy-to-navigate online consumer guide to cell phone radiation. ...
Online Tool Rates Cell Phone Radiation
Green Inc. —
A new online tool that allows consumers to determine the radio-frequency radiation levels of their cell phones drew so much traffic when it went live yesterday that the ...
Cell Phone Radiation Levels Ranked by Environmental Advocacy Group
Yale Environment 360 —
The controversy over whether radiation from cell phones can cause brain and mouth cancers has intensified now that the Environmental Working Group has posted an online tool that enables people to see levels of radiation emitted by 1,200 cell phones. Among the top-ten highest emitters are the popular Blackberry and Motorola models. Traffic to the site displaying the radiation rankings was so large that the Environmental Working Group — which works to protect children from toxic chemicals and products — ...
NBC Nightly News talks cell phone radiation
Enviroblog —
... Last week, EWG released a report about exposure to cell phone radiation. Today, its author, EWG Senior Scientist Olga Naidenko, PhD, testifies in Congress about the issue. ...
EWG testifies in Congress about cell phone radiation
Enviroblog —
... After we released our report about cell phone radiation, EWG Senior Scientist Olga Naidenko, PhD. testified in the U.S. Senate about our findings. Here she talks with EWG's Chief of Staff, Heather White, just before her testimony: ...
How Radioactive is Your Cell Phone?
Planet Green Articles Feed —
... that zeroes in the radiation levels found in hundreds of cell phone models. The guide (which you can access on the EWG's website here ) was so popular upon its release last week that the server for the website nearly crashed. It's an easy to use look at radiation levels, plain and simple. On the main page, the EGW rounds up the safest phones (with the lowest emissions). Number one? The Samsung Impression, followed closely by the Motorola RAZR. It's important to note that as of now, many scientists say that the type of radiation emitted by cell phones isn't ...
Fall '09 Cell Phone Radiation Series #1: The Science
Enviroblog —
... We at EWG were curious, though we did figure that the radiation was probably more dangerous than deleting a chain letter. So we launched a 10-month investigation into the latest science of cell phone radiation. The result was our recently released report, Cell Phone Radiation Science Review, and a brand-new cell phone database. ...
Cell Phone Radiation Series #2: 8 Ways to Reduce Your Exposure
Enviroblog —
... keypad covers reduce the connection quality and force the phone to transmit at a higher power with higher radiation.
LIMIT CHILDREN'S PHONE USE
Young children's brains absorb twice as much cell phone radiation as those of adults. EWG joins health agencies in at least 6 countries in recommending limiting children's phone use, such as for emergencies only.
To look up the radiation level of your phone, find a headset or read our research, visit EWG's cell phone report.
Next in our series: government (in)action on cell phones ...
Cell Phone Radiation Series - Part 3: Who's protecting you?
Enviroblog —
The science may not yet be decided on the effects of cell phone radiation on human health, but recent research is unsettling enough that Environmental Working Group (and government safety agencies around the world) recommends reducing your exposure where you can.
This blog series breaks down EWG's recent report on cell phone radiation - so far we've talked about the science of cell phone radiation and simple steps to limit your exposure.
By now you may be wondering where the government is in all this ...
