Methyl isocyanate, a pungent, colorless and very flammable liquid used to produce pesticides, evaporates into a deadly gas almost instantly when exposed to air. In the early hours of December 3 ...

A Bhopal court denied Dow Chemical’s request to move the 1984 gas disaster case, ruling the city has jurisdiction over the ...

During that night, clouds of highly toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas rolled through the streets and into houses, venting from the Bhopal pesticide plant until the leak petered out by 2 AM.

Just after midnight as poisonous plumes of smoke wafted through the Indian city of Bhopal four decades ago, Gas Devi was born, gasping for every breath.

I found myself on the edge of my seat in the chilling account of the devastating gas leak in Bhopal. A back plume comprising twenty-five staggering tons of Methyl Isocyanate gas bloomed into the ...

Indore: Over four decades after the devastating 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, all 337 tonnes of hazardous waste from the now-defunct Union Carbide factory have been successfully incinerated at a ...

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): Highly toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas had leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, killing 5,479 ...

Bhopal chemical disaster survivors Bati Bai Rajak, left, Farhat Jahan, right, came to Penn State-Beaver in Monaca, Pa. with Rachna Dhingra as part of International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal.

Authorities incinerated around 19 tonnes of contaminated soil from the Bhopal Union Carbide factory. The incineration took ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - It’s been forty years since the catastrophic chemical disaster in Bhopal, India. A union carbide pesticide plant leaked 45 tons of methyl isocyanate gas. Thousands died ...

On the morning of Dec. 3, 1984, a pesticide plant run by Union Carbide leaked about 40 tons of deadly methyl isocyanate gas into the air of the central Indian city of Bhopal, quickly killing about ...