Theo Vos, Ryan M Barber, Brad Bell, Amelia Bertozzi-Villa et al.
Background Up-to-date evidence about levels and trends in disease and injury incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) is an essential input into global, regional, and national health policies. In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), we estimated these quantities f...
Charles F. Harvey, Khandaker N. Ashfaque, Winston Yu, A. B. M. Badruzzaman et al.
W. G. Burgess, M. A. Hoque, Holly A. Michael, Clifford I. Voss et al.
Holly A. Michael, Clifford I. Voss
Tens of millions of people in the Bengal Basin region of Bangladesh and India drink groundwater containing unsafe concentrations of arsenic. This high-arsenic groundwater is produced from shallow (<100 m) depths by domestic and irrigation wells in the Bengal Basin aquifer system. The government of B...
Holly A. Michael, Clifford I. Voss
K. A. Radloff, Yan Zheng, Holly A. Michael, M. Stute et al.
Drinking shallow groundwater with naturally elevated concentrations of arsenic is causing widespread disease in many parts of South and Southeast Asia. In the Bengal Basin, growing reliance on deep (>150 m) groundwater has lowered exposure. In the most affected districts of Bangladesh, shallow groun...
Mahfuzur R. Khan, Mohammad Koneshloo, Peter S.K. Knappett, Kazi Matin Ahmed et al.
Many of the world's megacities depend on groundwater from geologically complex aquifers that are over-exploited and threatened by contamination. Here, using the example of Dhaka, Bangladesh, we illustrate how interactions between aquifer heterogeneity and groundwater exploitation jeopardize groundwa...
Holly A. Michael, Clifford I. Voss
Michele Thieme, Kim Birnie‐Gauvin, Jeffrey J. Opperman, P.A. Franklin et al.
Freshwater connectivity and the associated flow regime are critical components of the health of freshwater ecosystems. When freshwater ecosystems are fragmented, the movements and flows of species, nutrients, sediments, and water are altered, changing the natural dynamics of freshwater ecosystems. T...
M. Rajib H. Mozumder, Holly A. Michael, I. Mihajlov, Khan Mz et al.
Abstract Across South Asia, millions of villagers have reduced their exposure to high‐arsenic (As) groundwater by switching to low‐As wells. Isotopic tracers and flow modeling are used in this study to understand the groundwater flow system of a semi‐confined aquifer of Pleistocene (>10 kyr) age ...
Holly A. Michael, Mahfuzur R. Khan
Khan Mz, Holly A. Michael, Bibhash Nath, Linden Huhmann et al.
Abstract Elevated arsenic in Bengal Basin aquifers threatens human health. Most deep (>150 m) groundwater in Pleistocene aquifers is low in arsenic; however higher concentrations have been reported in the southwest border region. Here, we establish that this extensive arsenic contamination at dep...
Simon N. Stuart, Shaikha Al Dhaheri, Elizabeth L. Bennett, Duan Biggs et al.
Abstract A controversy at the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress on the topic of closing domestic ivory markets (the 007, or so-called James Bond, motion) has given rise to a debate on IUCN's value proposition. A cross-section of authors who are engaged in IUCN but not employed by the organizatio...
Arlie McCarthy, Daniel Steadman, Hannah Richardson, Jack Murphy et al.
Abstract Numerous policy and international frameworks consider that “destructive fishing” hampers efforts to reach sustainability goals. Though ubiquitous, “destructive fishing” is undefined and therefore currently immeasurable. Here we propose a definition developed through expert consultation: “De...
Mahfuzur R. Khan, Holly A. Michael, Edward William Bresnyan, Winston Yu