Mashura Shammi

Jahangirnagar University · Department of Environmental Sciences

This study focused on the distribution of microplastics in the water and sediment of the Ganges River Basin to the Meghna Estuary in Bangladesh. Thirty points were sampled from Chapainawabganj district (India-Bangladesh border) to Chandpur district (Meghna Estuary). The morphological appearances were recognized by stereomicroscope and SEM-EDX analy...

The Bay of Bengal (BoB) is the largest sink to retain discharges from major rivers and the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest in Bangladesh and upholds significant ecological and resource diversity. This study aims to characterize, and identify sources, spatial dynamics, and the fate of the principal ecological web driver that is fluorescent dissolved orga...

This study aimed to assess pollution and daily-to-seasonal dynamics of the partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) and CO2 degassing flux concerning the fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM) from tropical lakes. A membrane-enclosed pCO2 sensor and water quality multimeter analyzer was deployed to continuously record daily and seasonal variations in pC...

One of the many human stressors on marine ecosystems is microplastic (MP) contamination. The strong dispersion pattern of marine currents transports MPs across the oceans, even to isolated locations such as the polar regions has made it difficult to remove. MPs toxicity to marine primary producers such as microalgae and biofilmforming alga are rema...

Urban green spaces and urban forest covers are a significant component of urban planning which is critically ignored in Bangladesh. This study aims to identify the prospects and challenges of achieving sustainable urban green spaces in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), Bangladesh which is a significant indicator of the sustainable development go...

In this article, we have reviewed how the women of Bangladesh are negatively exposed to the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of quality education, employment loss, labour market contribution, domestic violence, and health and wellness, thus putting their lives at more significant risk. We have employed the Drivers-Pressures-States-Impact-Response (DPSIR)...

The status of PAH in the urban areas of Bangladesh is not known. For the first time, this study investigated concentration , spatial distributions, likely sources and potential toxicities of PAHs. 13 PAH compounds were analyzed in RDS (dust) and NS (soils) by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). PAHs were enriched in relatively high molecu...

The aim of this review paper is to identify the production trends of shrimp and rice farming systems and associated hydrobiological parameters such as salinity in the coastal districts of Bangladesh. An intensive literature review has been conducted to explore salt stress-driven land use change, crop production, and changing ecosystem hydrobiology...

The thermal conversion of sludge to biochar and its addition to soil helps to improve the quality of agricultural soil, aid sustainable production, and lowers streams and groundwater contamination. The present study was performed to compare the physicochemical properties of bioslurry produced biochar at 300, 400 and, 500 °C pyrolysis temperatures....

Cookstoves designed for biochar production can capture carbon and use it for land application. Using biochar cookstoves can be a simple and effective household intervention for climate change mitigation. Adaptation of biochar cookstoves such as Top-lit updraft (TLUD) in everyday cooking by millions of rural villagers worldwide in developing countri...

This study aimed to prepare and characterize biochars from Textile and Food industry sludges set at 300 °C, 400 °C, and 500 °C. The residence time was 2 hours for each treatment with nitrogen flow. Biochar yields were decreased by increasing pyrolysis temperature. The parameters such as pH, Electric Conductivity (EC), Carbon/Nitrogen ratio, Total P...

How do Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) evolve in Bangladesh regarding legislation? Who should be in the governance of SEA in Bangladesh? What future challenges lie ahead of this transition to the SEA system in Bangladesh, and how to address them? The application context of SEA is in its early stage...

The Bangladesh-Sundarbans is the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) articulated by UNESCO, is under different anthropogenic stress. The present study focused on the status of estuarine biogeochemistry of the dissolved organic matter (DOM) of the Bangladesh–Sundarbans using different optical methods. Four fluorophores: Peak A (230-265/408-488 nm), Pe...

In this chapter, four different types of pollution problems in four countries are introduced. These are pollution with mercury by small-scale gold mining activities in Indonesia, pollution with nitrobenzene in the Songhua River in China, salt damages in Bangladesh, and soil contamination with lead in railroad stations in Japan. Some authors actuall...

As the sustainable building construction concept is at its peak right now, Bangladesh is attempting to keep up with the world's pace by pursuing green building to combine environmental and health safety policies with the construction sector. This study aims to identify the general perceptions of green building among construction professionals and f...

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were determined in sediment samples collected from the Turag River, Dhaka city, Bangladesh. This river provides critical ecological services to agriculture, industry, and transportation. However, it is one of the most polluted rivers surrounding the capital city. This study analyzed six PCB congeners (PCB 10, PCB 28...

The Ganges and the Brahmaputra, two major rivers in Bangladesh, contribute major loads of dissolved organic matter (DOM) into the Bay of Bengal. The composition, sources, availability, and seasonal heterogeneity of DOM in these two rivers are thus very important to know about the biogeochemical cycles, fate, and ecological and environmental aspects...

As the sustainable building construction concept is at its peak right now, Bangladesh is attempting to keep up with the world's pace by pursuing green building to combine environmental and health safety policies with the construction sector. This study aims to identify the general perceptions of green building among construction professionals and f...

In this study a rapid and short Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) conducted to find the existing policy and legal gaps of biomedical waste management regulations during the COVID-19.15 Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) were taken from the regulatory bodies, public and private medical college hospitals, corporations, civil societies, and the th...

This study focused on the current situation and management after the end-of-life solar photovoltaic (PV) module in Bangladesh. The solar PV cells have a lifetime to serve properly, which is about 15-25 years from installation. Solar PV cell has recycling potentiality as well as the risk of producing hazardous wastes. After the end of life, the sola...

Considering the challenge of global water–energy nexus, an integration and systematic inspection of the integrated desalination is a growing research interest. This chapter aims to discuss numerously integrated and hybrid desalination technologies found in the entire globe. The tremendous research interest for integration and hybridization of diffe...

This study was carried out to characterize the biogeochemical and physicochemical properties of landfill leachate from Matuail Sanitary landfill site, Dhaka, Bangladesh. In addition, the study also aimed to identify the photodegradation of landfill leachate under natural sunlight. The leachate pH was slightly alkaline (7.87-8.07) with a minimum lev...

Occurrences and exposure to high levels of microbial bioaerosols such as pathogenic bacteria, fungi, fungal spores, and viruses can be linked to the deterioration of the environment and public health. This study aimed to review the results available for the unusual bioaerosol distribution scenario in the Asian regions. The amount of bioaerosol load...

This study focused on the current situation and management after end-of-life of the solar photo voltaic (PV) module in Bangladesh. The solar PV cells have a life time to serve properly which is about 15-25 years from installation. Solar PV cell has recycling potentiality as well as risk of producing hazardous wastes. After the end of life, the sola...

Tourism carrying capacity is an essential tool for developing a sustainable management system of a natural area as every natural site has a specific carrying capacity of visitors. If the number of tourists or visitors exceeds carrying capacity, it will be detrimental to a natural environment which was not estimated for the Jahangirnagar University...

The rapid spread of novel Corona Virus disease (Covid-19) is leading the world to a major health crisis. Lockdown of educational institutions across the country has put the mental health of students, especially the undergraduate and postgraduate students, at risk. The present study aimed to get a perception on the mental stress felt by the students...

Tourism carrying capacity is an essential tool for developing a sustainable management system of a natural area as every natural site has a specific carrying capacity of visitors. If the number of tourists or visitors exceeds carrying capacity, it will be detrimental to a natural environment which was not estimated for the Jahangirnagar University...

Purpose Amidst the one year of COVID-19 the amount of healthcare waste generation manifolds in Bangladesh. This article aims to rapidly assess the knowledge, attitude, practice, and perception (KAPP) towards COVID-19 related healthcare wastes among Bangladeshi healthcare professionals. Methods This research was conducted following a multi-stage me...

As COVID-19 spreads quickly across the whole of Bangladesh, the increased uses of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) could lead to secondary environmental catastrophes. It is urgent for respective authority to maintain a safe waste disposal system to save the environment and protect public health from impending health threats.

Vermicomposting of food waste is an effective way to handle a large amount of food waste generated daily. In this study, food waste and cow dung mixture were composted using earthworm Eisenia fetida. All physicochemical parameters of prepared vermicompost (pH, EC, salinity, organic carbon, organic matter, total nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, Sulp...

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) assessment in sediments of Turag River, Dhaka, Bangladesh has been conducted for the first time. This River provides critical ecological services to agriculture, industry, and transportation. However, the Turag River is one of the most industrially polluted rivers surrounding Dhaka in Bangladesh. In this study, six...

Transformation of food and beverage industrial sludge into vermicompost into value-added product simultaneously can control gaseous emission. Addition of biochar in the vermicomposting as a bulking agent increases fertilizer value. This research aimed to investigate the effect of biochar amendment on vermicomposting of the food and beverage industr...

Community transmission of COVID-19 is happening in Bangladesh-the country which did not have a noteworthy health policy and legislative structures to combat a pandemic like COVID-19. Early strategic planning and groundwork for evolving and established challenges are crucial to assemble resources and react in an appropriate timely manner. This artic...

Novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) causing COVID-19 disease has arisen to be a pandemic. Since there is a close association between other viral infection cases by epidemics and environmental factors, this study intends to unveil meteorological effects on the outbreak of COVID-19 across eight divisions of Bangladesh from March to April 2020. A compound...

The global pandemic COVID-19 culminated in escalating biomedical waste (BMW) worldwide, and the management authorities are struggling with waste treatment. Bangladesh and India are two densely populated South Asian developing countries with limited resources. Both countries face mass community transmission of the disease, with India facing severe i...

Water security has been considering as one of the most challenging global issues. Major global water resources are in tremendous pressure due to excessive anthropogenic interventions. Surface water bodies and groundwater tables are facing threats due to discharge of polluted waters from domestic, industrial, and agricultural sources and excessive a...

The technology that has tremendous potential to solve water and energy scarcity is the use of desalination. Desalination processes are the sustainable answer to ensure water and energy security as well as food security in the realms of water–energy nexus (WEN). Integrating with renewable energy, desalination can potentially reduce energy costs and...

Environment conservation through cleaning up of xenobiotics is a global concern. Different technologies have been tried to remove pollutants from the water environment. Among them adsorption is one of the prime candidates. In this chapter, we have discussed the removal of heavy metals: arsenic, lead, cadmium, and chromium using unconventional low-c...

Desalination is the technology to provide energy, fresh water, and food security concurrently for the remote, coastal, and energy-lacking countries. In this chapter, we have discussed various techniques and problems of thermal and membrane desalination techniques such as electrodialysis, reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, and nanofiltration, membran...

Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change impacts also struck by the COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdown measures were ineffective with no sign of flattening the curve. Therefore, the high risk of transmission is evident with an increasing number of affected people. Under this circumstance, a multiple hazards scenario can be...

The Chittagong hill tracts (CHT) region are within the Chattogram division in the South-East part of Bangladesh, bordering India, and Myanmar. CHT covers 50% of the forest resources of Bangladesh, along with 0.67 million hectares of hilly land. One of the significant reservoirs of natural resources and a land of indigenous diversity, there are 34%...

Weed management is an important issue since weeds directly compete with crop plants for space, nutrients; serve as habitat for insect pests and diseases, and can create a significant annual reduction in crop productivity. This study focused on evaluating the contribution of the secondary metabolites of the fruit pulp of Couroupita guianensis Aubl....

The tannery industries have been identified as one of the main sources of environmental pollution in peripheral Dhaka City. This study was carried out to identify the potential threats of relocated tannery industries at Hemayetpur, Savar, on human health and environment. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted to identify the health and environm...

Background: The spread of COVID-19 pandemic, the partial lockdown, the disease intensity, weak governance in the healthcare system, insufficient medical facilities, unawareness, and various misinformation in the mass media led people to fear and anxiety. The present study intended to conduct a perception-based analysis to get the idea of the people...

Multifaceted international and national collaborative responses and progress have sustained the world’s largest densely populated refugee camps in the Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh. Yet, the Rohingyas remain in an extremely precarious situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The refugees are living in highly challenging circumstances of water, sa...

The year 2020 is certainly a year of pandemic and disasters. There is no sign of an end to this series of events; to add more salt to the wound, dengue is knocking at the door As we were writing this article on climate change vulnerability and the dengue epidemic during Covid-19, a tropical cyclone named Amphan passed over Bangladesh and caused hav...

Salinity has caused significant negative effects on agricultural production in the coastal regions in Bangladesh. This research is focused on the effect of salinity intrusion in the agricultural sector and the adaptation measures to reduce negative effects considering farmers' perception. A questionnaire survey was conducted using multi-stage and s...

Considering the population density, healthcare capacity, limited resources and existing poverty, environmental factors, social structure, cultural norms, and already more than 18,863 people infected, the community transmission of COVID-19 is happening fast. These exacerbated a complex fear among the public. The aim of this article is, therefore, to...

This is the popular newspaper version of our research on COVID-19 which was published in The Business Standard on 6 May 2020. The link of the online version is https://tbsnews.net/thoughts/lockdown-withdraw-or-not-withdraw-77752?fbclid=IwAR1i5M0mVbpZA74Nt8Wlewr00D_AYAmo_6o0fLhcabGU6di3pJ2mAITvtJA

Global pandemic COVID-19 is in stage 4 of widespread local transmission in Bangladesh-the country which did not have a noteworthy health policy and legislative structures to combat COVID-19 like a pandemic. Early strategic planning and groundwork for evolving and established challenges are crucial to assemble resources and react in an appropriate t...

The COVID-19 pandemic situation, disease intensity, weak healthcare facilities, unawareness, and misinformation led people to fear and anxiety in Bangladesh. This study intended to get peoples' perception on psychosocial, socioeconomic and environmental crisis amidst the pandemic. An online questionnaire was surveyed nationwide (respondents no.1066...

Groundwater plays a pivotal role as the largest potable water sources in Bangladesh. As agriculture is widely practiced in Bangladesh, potential nitrate (NO 3¯) pollution may occur. Besides, excess amount of arsenic (As) has already been found in groundwater in many parts of Bangladesh including the present study area. Thus, this study was conducte...

This study focuses on identifying volatile emissions from plants with potential plant growth inhibitory activity. The aim of this study was to evaluate plant species from the Asian country Bangladesh for new, potential volatile allelopathic species. A total of 103 plant samples from 40 different families were assessed with the dish pack (DP) method...

Abstract: Buriganga River is one of the most polluted rivers in Bangladesh, as this river receives huge amount of waste from various types of industries, households etc. This study framed the water quality of Buriganga River, and analyzed the presence and concentration of Poly Chlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), one of the notorious Persistent Organic Po...

Weed management is one of the significant challenges of field crops since weeds pose a remarkable threat to crop productivity in South Asian countries, including Bangladesh. Allelopathy, a phenomenon whereby secondary metabolites produced and released by one plant species influence the growth and development of other species can be exploited in sus...

Weed management is one of the significant challenges of field crops since weeds pose aremarkable threat to crop productivity in South Asian countries, including Bangladesh. Allelopathy,a phenomenon whereby secondary metabolites produced and released by one plant species influencethe growth and development of other species can be exploited in sustai...

Life Cycle Assessment of Eggshell of food industry to value added product conversion

Increasing salt intake has substantial negative impacts on human health and well-being. This article focused on the construction of Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework for drinking water sodium (DWS) followed by a review on the published studies regarding salinity intrusion, DWS, and their effects on health perspectives in Bangl...

Increasing salt intake has substantial negative impacts on health and well-being. This 11 review article focusses on the effect of salinity intrusion (SI) on the water quality and community 12 health of coastal Bangladesh and to find out the effectiveness of interventions for reducing the 13 negative effects of salinity. Saline water is a noteworth...

Groundwater plays a pivotal role as the largest potable water sources in Bangladesh. However, the quality of the groundwater faces challenges due to xenobiotic compounds in it. As agriculture is widely practiced in Bangladesh, potential nitrate (NO3-) pollution may appear in near future. Besides, excess amount of arsenic (As) has already been found...

Salinity intrusion is a global concern in relation to sustainable agricultural practices. About three-fourths of the coastal area in Bangladesh is affected by different levels of salinity. This study was conducted to observe the effects of NaCl-salinity on tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) plants in a pot experiment. Morphological properties a...

The levels perception and behavior of farmers on pesticide uses and its relevant risks to the environment and human health were surveyed among the farmers of Bangladesh in two areas: Savar Upazila (SU) and Mehendiganj Upazila (MU). Significant differences were observed between the farmers’ regarding information of pesticides (χ2 = 19.679 at p<0.05)...

The levels perception and behavior of farmers on pesticide uses and its relevant risks to the environment and human health were surveyed among the farmers of Bangladesh in two areas: Savar Upazila (SU) and Mehendiganj Upazila (MU). Significant differences were observed between the farmers’ regarding information of pesticides (χ2 = 19.679 at p<0.05)...