Shortly after midnight on December 3, 1984, in the city of Bhopal, India, tons of lethal gases leaked from a pesticide factory run by the U.S. company Union Carbide.

The in-depth story of the Bhopal Disaster The amount of death and trauma experienced by the residents of Bhopal, India has made their city the home of the world’s worst industrial disaster. On ...

They further added that: “ Although the ultimate horrors of the Bhopal gas leak unfolded in India, the disaster is an American tragedy.” [Baxi & Paul (ed.), paras 2-3, p.61] ...

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

Earlier this month, on the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, congressional allies of this movement including U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash ...

Forty years ago, on the night of Sunday 2 December of 1984, people in the city of Bhopal and surrounding communities were settling in for what seemed like yet another regular night. The worst thing… ...

What would become the “ world’s worst industrial disaster ” continues to devastate lives 40 years on. The water of 200,000 people in 71 surrounding villages in Madhya Pradesh state is ...

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

Then in December, I traveled to Bhopal, India, a city that in 1984 was struck by the world’s worst industrial disaster. It’s given rise to a community contending with chronic illnesses.

Somnath Mukherji, of Boston, a development coordinator for the Association for India’s Development, attended the vigil and and said he felt DowDuPont’s treatment of Bhopal was a form of “environmental ...