Kashif Abbass, Muhammad Qasim, Huaming Song, Muntasir Murshed et al.
Climate change is a long-lasting change in the weather arrays across tropics to polls. It is a global threat that has embarked on to put stress on various sectors. This study is aimed to conceptually engineer how climate variability is deteriorating the sustainability of diverse sectors worldwide. S...
Georgina M. Mace, Nigel Collar, Kevin J. Gaston, Craig Hilton‐Taylor et al.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species was increasingly used during the 1980s to assess the conservation status of species for policy and planning purposes. This use stimulated the development of a new set of quantitative criteria for listing species...
Derek P. Tittensor, Matt Walpole, Samantha L. L. Hill, Daniel G. Boyce et al.
In 2010, the international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed on 20 biodiversity-related "Aichi Targets" to be achieved within a decade. We provide a comprehensive mid-term assessment of progress toward these global targets using 55 indicator data sets. W...
Md Golam Kibria, Nahid Imtiaz Masuk, Rafat Safayet, Huy Quoc Nguyen et al.
A comprehensive analysis of global plastic waste generation and its effect on land and marine environment is conducted. Plastic waste management technologies for both land and marine environment are reviewed thoroughly. The modern technologies for waste-to-energy and waste-to-production conversion a...
Ronald Lulijwa, Emmanuel Rupia, Andrea C. Alfaro
Abstract This review focuses on the current status of antibiotics use, effects on animal health and the environment, existing policies and regulatory mechanisms in the top 15 producing countries. Fifty papers were reviewed and represented the bulk of literature worldwide. We observed that 67 antibio...
Bryan P. Wallace, Andrew DiMatteo, Brendan Hurley, Elena M. Finkbeiner et al.
BACKGROUND: Resolving threats to widely distributed marine megafauna requires definition of the geographic distributions of both the threats as well as the population unit(s) of interest. In turn, because individual threats can operate on varying spatial scales, their impacts can affect different se...
Roy Brouwer, Sonia Akter, Luke Brander, Enamul Haque
In this article we investigate the complex relationship between environmental risk, poverty, and vulnerability in a case study carried out in one of the poorest and most flood-prone countries in the world, focusing on household and community vulnerability and adaptive coping mechanisms. Based upon t...
Prosun Bhattacharya, Alan H. Welch, Kenneth G. Stollenwerk, Mike J. McLaughlin et al.
Arsenic (As) distribution and toxicology in the environment is a serious issue, with millions of individuals worldwide being affected by As toxicosis. Sources of As contamination are both natural and anthropogenic and the scale of contamination ranges from local to regional. There are many areas of ...
Bryan P. Wallace, Andrew DiMatteo, Alan B. Bolten, Milani Chaloupka et al.
Where conservation resources are limited and conservation targets are diverse, robust yet flexible priority-setting frameworks are vital. Priority-setting is especially important for geographically widespread species with distinct populations subject to multiple threats that operate on different spa...
Jason Corburn, David Vlahov, Blessing Mberu, Lee W. Riley et al.
The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic of COVID-19 since basic needs such as water, toilets, sewers, drainage, waste collection, and secure and adequate housing are already in short supply or non-existent. Further, space constraints, violence, and overcr...
Saverio Stranges, William Tigbe, F. Xavier Gómez‐Olivé, Margaret Thorogood et al.
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of sleep problems and the effect of potential correlates in low-income settings from Africa and Asia, where the evidence is lacking. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: Community-wide samples from 8 countries across Africa and Asia participating in the INDEPTH WHO...
Güven Eken, Leon Bennun, Thomas M. Brooks, Will Darwall et al.
Site conservation is among the most effective means to reduce global biodiversity loss. Therefore, it is critical to identify those sites where unique biodiversity must be conserved immediately. To this end, the concept of key biodiversity areas (KBAs) has been developed, seeking to identify and, ul...
Md. Khalid Hasan, Abrar Shahriar, Kudrat Ullah Jim
Bangladesh - one of the most densely populated countries of the world- has plentiful water sources, but these sources are being polluted continuously. Both surface water and groundwater sources are contaminated with different contaminants like toxic trace metals, coliforms as well as other organic a...
Amitava Mukherjee, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Mohammed Hossain, Sad Ahamed et al.
The incidence of high concentrations of arsenic in drinking-water has emerged as a major public-health problem. With newer-affected sites discovered during the last decade, a significant change has been observed in the global scenario of arsenic contamination, especially in Asian countries. This com...
Thomas Tanner, David Lewis, David Wrathall, Robin Bronen et al.