Joyce Chen, Valerie Mueller
Jasim Ahmad, Md. Abdul Goni
Concentrations of Cu, Zn, Pb, Cr, Cd, Fe, and Ni have been estimated in soils and vegetables grown in and around an industrial area of Bangladesh. The order of metal contents was found to be Fe > Cu > Zn > Cr > Pb > Ni > Cd in contaminated irrigation water, and a similar pattern Fe > Zn > Ni > Cr > ...
Rich Pouyat, Peter M. Groffman, Ian D. Yesilonis, L Hernandez
The transformation of landscapes from non-urban to urban land use has the potential to greatly modify soil carbon (C) pools and fluxes. For urban ecosystems, very little data exists to assess whether urbanization leads to an increase or decrease in soil C pools. We analyzed three data sets to assess...
Yeasmin Nahar Jolly, Ashraful Islam, Shawkat Akbar
Metal contamination in agricultural soils is of increasing concern due to food safety issues and potential health risks. Accumulation of Heavy and trace metals in vegetables occur by various sources but soil is considered the major one. Consumption of vegetables containing (heavy/trace) metals is on...
G. M. Panaullah, Tariqul Alam, M. Baktear Hossain, Richard H. Loeppert et al.
Shams Forruque Ahmed, P. Senthil Kumar, Mahtabin Rodela Rozbu, Anika Tasnim Chowdhury et al.
Arsenic is a highly toxic metalloid that is extensively distributed in soils and water bodies, resulting in a variety of toxicity mechanisms and harmful effects on humans and environmental health. This paper comprehensively reviews the technological development in arsenic (As) removal from wastewate...
Christopher H. Swartz, Nicole Blute, Borhan Badruzzman, Ashraf Ali et al.
Md Rayhan Shaheb, Ramarao Venkatesh, S. A. Shearer
Abstract Purpose Sustainable crop production could contribute to feed and fuel for the ever-increasing global population. The use of heavy agricultural machinery has improved the efficiency of farming operations and increased global food production since the 1950s. But their negative impact on soil ...
Habiba Afrin
Soil stabilization is the process of improving the shear strength parameters of soil and thus increasing the bearing capacity of soil. It is required when the soil available for construction is not suitable to carry structural load. Soils exhibit generally undesirable engineering properties. Soil St...
Abu Muhammad Shajaat Ali
Susmita Dasgupta, Md. Moqbul Hossain, Mainul Huq, David Wheeler
This paper estimates location-specific soil salinity in coastal Bangladesh for 2050. The analysis was conducted in two stages: First, changes in soil salinity for the period 2001-2009 were assessed using information recorded at 41 soil monitoring stations by the Soil Research Development Institute. ...
Mahesh K. Gathala, Virender Kumar, Parbodh Chander Sharma, Yashpal Saharawat et al.
Increasing scarcity of resources (labour, water, and energy) and cost of production, along with climate variability, are major challenges for the sustainability of rice–wheat system in the northwesten Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP). We hypothesized that adopting the principles of conservation agricultur...
Henning Rodhe, Frank Dentener, Michael Schulz
The acid-base status of precipitation is a result of a balance between acidifying compounds--mainly oxides of sulfur and nitrogen--and alkaline compounds--mainly ammonia and alkaline material in windblown soil dust. We use current models of the global atmospheric distribution of such compounds to es...
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...
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...