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 ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain pleas filed claiming that 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy survivors with lasting severe injuries and illnesses were wrongly classified under 'temporary ...

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.

Twenty-seven tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC), used in the production of pesticides, swept through the city of over two million people after one of the tanks storing the deadly chemical shattered ...

The Supreme Court declined a plea claiming misclassification of injuries among 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy survivors led to under-compensation. Petitioners can approach the high court. Methyl isocyanate ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early hours of Dec. 3, 1984, around 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas accidentally leaked from a pesticide factory owned by U.S. multinational Union Carbide Corp. and was carried by the ...

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.

Fifteen years later, 40 tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate gas was released and carried by the wind to the surrounding densely populated disaster remains unclear and under debate.

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In 1991, Warren Anderson, Union Carbide chairman and chief executive at the time of the disaster, was charged in India with "culpable homicide not amounting to murder". But he never stood trial.