SHORTLY BEFORE midnight on December 2nd 1984 methyl isocyanate (MIC), a highly poisonous gas, began leaking from a storage tank at a pesticide factory in the Indian city of Bhopal. During the night, ...

Bhopal: The Bhopal disaster, which is also known as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a chemical leak that occurred on December 2-3, 1984, at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Madhya Pradesh's capital, ...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thirty years on from the Bhopal disaster, an international film opens on Friday dramatising the story of how an American pesticide factory in India ...

BHOPAL, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of protesters gathered on Wednesday outside the abandoned factory which caused the world's deadliest industrial disaster in the Indian city of ...

Shortly after midnight on Dec. 3, 1984 — 40 years ago today — about 45 tons of highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked out of a Union Carbide-owned pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. Residents of ...

Editor's note: A new Netflix series tells the story of the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster, and of the courageous "railway men" who risked everything ...

Balkrishna Namdev, a 71-year-old social activist and trade union organizer from central India’s Bhopal city, spoke slowly and calmly but with deep conviction, unwearied by the prolonged struggle for ...

INDORE: A sad chapter in the world’s largest industrial catastrophe, the Bhopal Gas Disaster, ended on Sunday with the complete incineration of 337 metric tons of toxic waste at the Treatment Storage ...

As a reporter at C&EN, I’ve covered several communities affected by environmental disasters. Last year, I visited East Palestine, Ohio, where a freight train had derailed and dumped toxic chemicals, ...

If the victims were not impoverished, disempowered Indians, the Bhopal disaster would probably be on the lips of every human being alive to this day. People who were in utero during the Bhopal ...