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 ...

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

Bhopal's toxic legacy lives on, 30 years after industrial disaster By Danish Siddiqui and Nita Bhalla November 28, 2014 11:11 AM UTC Updated November 28, 2014 ...

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 ...

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.

BHOPAL, India | Three decades after lethal gas swept through Bhopal, the central Indian city remains haunted by memories of the world's worst industrial disaster.

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, ... 1984 when an accident at the Union Carbide plant released a hazardous chemical, methyl isocyanate, or MIC, into the air.

Hundreds of survivors of the Bhopal gas leak took to the streets Wednesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster, with protests demanding harsher punishments for ...