Ki‐Hyun Kim, Shamin Ara Jahan, Ehsanul Kabir, Richard J. C. Brown
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a large group of organic compounds comprised of two or more fused benzene rings arranged in various configurations. PAHs are widespread environmental contaminants formed as a result of incomplete combustion of organic materials such as fossil fuels. The oc...
Eva Rahman Kabir, Monica Sharfin Rahman, Imon Rahman
Endocrine disruption is a named field of research which has been very active for over 10 years, although the effects of endocrine disruptors in wildlife have been studied mainly in vast since the 1940s. A large number of chemicals have been identified as endocrine disruptors and humans can be expose...
Mohammad Boshir Ahmed, Md Masruck Alam, John L. Zhou, Bentuo Xu et al.
The increasing occurrence of chemically resistant per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in the natural environment, animal tissues and even the human body poses a significant health risk. Temporal trend studies on water, sediments, bird, fish, marine mammal and the human show that the exposure...
Md. Shahinoor Islam, Jin‐Hyeob Kwak, Christopher Nzediegwu, Siyuan Wang et al.
The effectiveness of biochar as a sorptive material to remove contaminants, particularly heavy metals, from water is dependent on biomass type and pyrolysis condition. Biochars were produced from pulp mill sludge (PMS) and rice straw (RS) with nitrogen (N2) or carbon dioxide (CO2) as the purging gas...
Fausto Andreola, Pedro M. Fernández‐Salguero, Maria Vincenza Chiantore, Martin Petkovich et al.
Livers from aryl hydrocarbon receptor-null mice showed a 3-fold increase in retinoids and a 65% decrease in retinoic acid metabolism. Levels of expression of the retinoic acid 4-hydroxylase, P450RAI, did not change, whereas cytochrome P4501A2 levels were lower in the null mouse, as shown earlier; ho...
Md. Habibullah‐Al‐Mamun, Md. Kawser Ahmed, Md. Saiful Islam, Masahiro Tokumura et al.
Full profile of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the coastal surface water from Bangladesh were analyzed by GC-MS/MS to explore the status of contamination, spatiotemporal distribution and to trace their potential sources. The total concentrations of dissolved PCBs (∑PCBs, sum of all congeners) v...
Kartik Dhar, Suresh R. Subashchandrabose, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Kannan Krishnan et al.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of hazardous organic contaminants that are widely distributed in nature, and many of them are potentially toxic to humans and other living organisms. Biodegradation is the major route of detoxification and removal of PAHs from the environment. Aero...
Mohammad Nazmul Ehsan, Mumtahina Riza, Md. Nahid Pervez, Mirza Mohammad Omar Khyum et al.
Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of manufactured chemicals that have recently attracted a great deal of attention from environmental regulators and the general public because of their high prevalence, resistance to degradation, and potential toxicity. This review summarizes the...
Björn Hansen, Ana B. Payá-Pérez, Mohammed Shahidur Rahman, Bo Larsen
Jonathan N. Hogarh, Nobuyasu Seike, Yuso Kobara, Ahsan Habib et al.
A comprehensive congener specific evaluation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) in the atmosphere was conducted across East Asia in spring 2008, applying polyurethane foam (PUF) disk passive air sampler (PAS) as monitoring device. Mean concentrations derived ...
Swapan Kumar Biswas, S. A. Tarafdar, Ashraful Islam, M. Khaliquzzaman et al.
Airborne particulate matter (APM) samples collected at a semiresidential area in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during the periods of 1994 and 1997-2000 have been studied to assess the impact of the use of unleaded gasoline in Bangladesh. According to scanning electron microscopy/ energy-dispersive X-ray microa...
Janine Guinan, M.E. Charlesworth, M. W. Service, Thomas S.N. Oliver
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were sampled from 30 sediment and 8 mussel (Mytilus edulis) stations in two Northern Irish Sea-toughs. Analysis was performed by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Sedimentary organic carbon, % silt/clay and mean grain size were analysed ...
M.E. Charlesworth, M. W. Service, C. E. Gibson
Concentrations of the sum of 15 PAHs in 22 surficial sediment samples from the western Irish Sea ranged from below 100 ng g(-1) in sandy sediments to a maximum of 1422 ng g(-1) in the centre of the mud basin. The concentrations are typical of coastal shelf sediments, but greater than those observed ...
Md. Ariful Islam, S. M. Nurul Amin, M. Aminur Rahman, Abdul Shukor Juraimi et al.
Alok Kumar, AL. Ramanathan, M. B. K. Prasad, Dilip Kumar Datta et al.
The distribution, enrichment, and ecotoxicity potential of Bangladesh part of Sundarban mangrove was investigated for eight trace metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Pb, and Zn) using sediment quality assessment indices. The average concentration of trace metals in the sediments exceeded the crustal abu...