The new trouble revived earlier fears of a conference collapse that could bring trade wars and a general worldwide economic decline.

Despite this, the dugong population is thought to be shrinking, with a worldwide decline of 20 per cent in the last 90 years.

In 1998 the country's oil income plunged by about 40 percent or $20 billion, a result of the worldwide decline in prices.

Part of the problem stemmed from a worldwide decline in steel prices.

These are the first and only documentaries on the worldwide decline in birthrates.

Some recent evidence points to ozone as a possible contributing factor to the worldwide decline of amphibians.

The worldwide decline in oil prices has hurt the profitability of the producing companies and made them even more reluctant to pay taxes.

It has caused several species extinctions and is thought to be the major cause of the worldwide decline in amphibians.

The terminal had operated at a loss for more than two years as a result of the worldwide decline in oil consumption.

Instead, societies today are so interconnected that the risk we face is of a worldwide decline.