Md. Saiful Islam, M. Belal Hossain, Abdul Matin, Md. Shafiqul Islam Sarker
Heavy metal pollution in sediment resources may pose serious threat to ecosystem and human health through food web. In this study, surface sediment samples of 10 stations along the Feni River estuary were analyzed to profile the accumulation, sources and pollution levels of heavy metals. The results...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Puneet Dwivedi, Rob Bailis, Lynn M. Hildemann et al.
Biomass combustion with traditional cookstoves causes substantial environmental and health harm. Nontraditional cookstove technologies can be efficacious in reducing this adverse impact, but they are adopted and used at puzzlingly low rates. This study analyzes the determinants of low demand for non...
Anwar Hossain, Md. Habibullah‐Al‐Mamun, Ichiro Nagano, Shigeki Masunaga et al.
Aquaculture is remarkably one of the most promising industries among the food-producing industries in the world. Aquaculture production as well as fish consumption per capita have been dramatically increasing over the past two decades. Shifting of culture method from semi-intensive to intensive tech...
Fikret Ustaoğlu, Md. Saiful Islam
The concentration of globally alarming potential toxic elements (PTEs) like Aluminum (Al), chrome (Cr), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), and uranium (U) were measured in surface sediment of seven major rivers residing...
Nazifa Rafa, Bushra Ahmed, Fatema Tuj Zohora, Jannatul Bakya et al.
Microplastic pollution has emerged as a new environmental concern due to our reliance on plastic. Recent years have seen an upward trend in scholarly interest in the topic of microplastics carrying contaminants; however, the available review studies have largely focused on specific aspects of this i...
Narottam Saha, Md. Rokunuzzaman
Considering the human health risk due to the consumption of foodstuffs, the concentrations of heavy metals (lead, manganese, chromium, cadmium, and arsenic) are investigated in vegetables, fruits, and fish species collected from the central market (called Shaheb Bazar) of Rajshahi City, Bangladesh. ...
Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Kawser Ahmed, Md. Habibullah‐Al‐Mamun, Md Fazlul Hoque
Sabbya Sachi, Jannatul Ferdous, Mahmudul Hasan Sikder, S. M. Azizul Karim Hussani
Now-a-days, various types of antibiotics are being used worldwide in veterinary sector indiscriminately for promotion of growth and treatment of the livestock. Significant portions of antibiotics are released through milk of dairy animals unaltered and exert serious harmful effects on human health. ...
Rogelio Pérez‐Padilla, Justino Regalado, Sverre Vedal, Peter D. Paré et al.
A case-control study was performed in women older than 40 yr of age to evaluate the risk of cooking with traditional wood stoves for chronic bronchitis and chronic airway obstruction (CAO). The subjects were recruited from patients attending a referral chest hospital in Mexico City. We selected 127 ...
M. Shahadat Hossain, Faisal Sobhan, Mohammad Nasir Uddin, S.M. Sharifuzzaman et al.
Microplastics were determined in pink Bombay-duck (Harpadon nehereus), white Bombay-duck (H. translucens) and gold-stripe sardine (Sardinella gibbosa) collected from the Northern Bay of Bengal at Bangladesh. Gastrointestinal tracts of fishes (n = 25 per species) were examined for microplastics follo...
K. M. Mohiuddin, H. M. Zakir, Kazuo Otomo, Shaila Sharmin et al.
Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Kawser Ahmed, Md. Habibullah‐Al‐Mamun, Shigeki Masunaga
Soil pollution, influenced by both the natural and anthropogenic factors, significantly reduces environmental quality. In this study, six hazardous elements (Cr, Ni, Cu, As, Cd and Pb) in 12 different land-use urban soils from Bangladesh were assessed. The ranges of Cr, Ni, Cu, As, Cd and Pb in stud...
Syed Hafizur Rahman, Dilara Khanam, Tanveer M. Adyel, Mohammad Shahidul Islam et al.
Intense urbanization, large scale industrialization and unprecedented population growth in the last few decades have been responsible for lowering environmental quality. Soil contamination with metals is a serious concern due to their toxicity and ability to accumulate in the biota. The present work...
Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, Shamal Chandra Karmaker, Md. Bodrud-Doza, Md Abdur Rakib et al.
Rapid urbanization and industrial growth have triggered heavy metal contamination in agricultural soil in Dhaka, which is a serious concern for ecological risk and public health issues. In this study, fifty-four soil samples from agricultural lands of Dhaka had been analyzed for assessing accumulati...
Faruque Ahmed, Hiroaki Ishiga