Studies conducted in India have indicated rising levels of heavy metals in river sediments (Singh et al. 2005; Dhanakumar et al. 2011; Kumar et al. 2013).
Nutritional screenings, conducted in July as part of the Enhanced Outreach Strategy for Child Survival – the largest-ever partnership between UNICEF, the World Food Programme and the Ethiopian Government – indicated rising levels of malnutrition in the SNNPR's Dale District.
And that in turn may indicate that despite rising levels of corporate anger and political lobbying, the Sarbanes-Oxley law is working and investors are getting higher-quality financial statements than ever before.
The results don't seem to indicate a rising level of concern.
Other casualties around the country indicated the rising level of Taliban attacks across the south and southeast.
The slowly rising levels of debt at local governments and large companies that have financed that investment indicate it may not be sustainable.
But rising levels of that enzyme can be linked to different kinds of damage, not just organ rejection, and it indicates that extensive damage has already occurred.
Global warming and rising levels of pollution.
This follows rising levels of workplace stress.
China's rising levels of hypocritical power.
