Assessment of heavy metal pollution in the agricultural soils, plants, and in the atmospheric particulate matter of a suburban industrial region in Dhaka, Bangladesh

SA Shammi, A Salam, MAH Khan - Environmental Monitoring and …, 2021 - Springer
Unplanned industrialization and improper management of wastes and gases into open
surfaces are affecting the agricultural lands causing heavy metal pollution. This study …

Study of seasonal variation of PM2.5 concentration associated with meteorological parameters at residential sites in Delhi, India

BP Singh, D Singh, K Kumar, VK Jain - Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, 2021 - Springer
The seasonal variation of particulate matter and its relationship with meteorological
parameters were measured at five different residential sites in Delhi. Sampling was carried …

The urban air quality nexus: Assessing the interplay of land cover change and air pollution in emerging South Asian cities

M Saha, A Al Kafy, A Bakshi, H Nath, S Alsulamy… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Air quality degradation presents a significant public health challenge, particularly in rapidly
urbanizing regions where changes in land use/land cover (LULC) can dramatically influence …

Atmospheric wet deposition of trace elements to central Tibetan Plateau

Z Cong, S Kang, Y Zhang, X Li - Applied Geochemistry, 2010 - Elsevier
To investigate trace elements in wet precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau (TP), a total of 79
event-based precipitation samples were collected from September 2007 to September 2008 …

Long-term (2003–2019) air quality, climate variables, and human health consequences in Dhaka, Bangladesh

MRS Pavel, SU Zaman, F Jeba, MS Islam… - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Long-term trends in air quality by studying the criteria pollutants (PM2. 5, PM10, CO, O3,
NO2, and SO2) and climate variables (temperature, surface pressure, and relative humidity) …

A review on air pollution monitoring and management using plants with special reference to foliar dust adsorption and physiological stress responses

SS Ram, S Majumder, P Chaudhuri… - Critical reviews in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Air pollution has become a major environmental risk as far as public health is concerned. It
has been proposed that reduction in levels of air pollution may result in lessening of the …

Size distribution and seasonal variation of size-segregated particulate matter in the ambient air of Raipur city, India

DK Deshmukh, MK Deb, SL Mkoma - Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 2013 - Springer
In this study, size-segregated particulate matter samples were collected in Raipur, India from
July 2009 to June 2010 by using eight-stage cascade impactor sampler. The annual …

Wintertime air quality in megacity Dhaka, Bangladesh strongly affected by influx of black carbon aerosols from regional biomass burning

A Salam, A Andersson, F Jeba, MI Haque… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Clean air is a key parameter for a sustainable society, and currently, megacity Dhaka has
among the worst air qualities in the world. This results from poorly constrained contributions …

Ambient particulate matter and carbon monoxide at an urban site of India: influence of anthropogenic emissions and dust storms

R Yadav, LK Sahu, G Beig, N Tripathi… - Environmental Pollution, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Continuous measurements of PM 2.5, PM 10 and CO were conducted at an urban
site of Udaipur in India from April 2011 to March 2012. The annual mean concentrations of …

Trends in atmospheric particulate matter in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the vicinity

MM Rana, N Sulaiman, B Sivertsen, MF Khan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2016 - Springer
Dhaka and its neighboring areas suffer from severe air pollution, especially during dry
season (November–April). We investigated temporal and directional variations in particulate …