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Revenue has nearly tripled in past two years for blood-test maker
2014-11-29 08:19:13| Chemicals - Topix.net
PTS Diagnostics was in poor shape when Obamacare passed nearly five years ago. The Indianapolis-based maker of CardioChek blood testing devices had spent the previous four years trying to catch consumers' eyes on the shelves of Walmart and other retailers.
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Number of Megacities Has Nearly Tripled Since 1990, UN Report Says
2014-10-06 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Urban footprint of Tokyo The number of urban areas with more than 10 million inhabitants -- sometimes called "megacities" -- has nearly tripled in the last 24 years, jumping from 10 in 1990 to 28 in 2014, according to the latest UN report on world urbanization. The total number of people living in megacities has grown from 153 million to 453 million during that period, the report says, and such areas now account for 15 percent of global GDP. Many are located in Asia: Tokyo, Japan, now tops the list...
Big Food tripled spending this year to stifle growing GMO labeling movement
2014-09-09 10:24:20| Beverages - Topix.net
It is something that, as an American and a consumer, ought to outrage you: Big Food companies spending tens of millions of dollars just to keep information from you -- to prevent you from knowing all that there is to know about a substance, or substances, that could be harming your health, as well as the overall health of the American agricultural industry. As Reuters reported recently, Big Food, which opposes mandatory labeling of anything manufactured with genetically modified organisms, spent nearly three times what they spent in all of last year in the first six months of this year to keep GMO-labeling laws from becoming reality .
Mercury Pollution in Oceans Has Tripled Since Industrial Revolution, Study Says
2014-08-07 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Globally, oceans contain roughly 60,000 to 80,000 tons of mercury pollution, according to a report published this week in Nature detailing the first direct calculation of mercury pollution in the world's oceans. Ocean waters shallower than about 300 feet (100 meters) have tripled in mercury concentration since the Industrial Revolution, the study found, and mercury in the oceans as a whole has increased roughly 10 percent over pre-industrial times. North Atlantic waters showed the most obvious signs...
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Malware infections in Windows PCs tripled in late 2013, Microsoft finds
2014-05-07 15:51:18| InfoWorld: Top News
A three-fold increase in Microsoft Windows computers infected with malicious software in late 2013 came from an application that was for some time classified as harmless by security companies. The finding comes as part of Microsoft's latest biannual Security Intelligence Report (SIR), released on Wednesday, which studies security issues encountered by more than 800 million computers using its security tools.
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