In 1984, about 40 tons of gas leaked out of a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killing thousands of people and damaging the health of others. The Bhopal disaster, considered the world’s worst ...

Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of one of the worst industrial disasters of the 20th century. Shortly after midnight on December 3, 1984, in the city of Bhopal, India, tons of lethal gases leaked ...

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 ...

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, ...

BHOPAL, India — A Bhopal court will continue hearing the criminal case tied to the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, rejecting a request from Dow Chemical to move the proceedings to a special CBI court in ...

Soon after the disaster, several concerned lawyers arrived in Bhopal to provide legal assistance to the gas victims. Many ‘ambulance chasers’ also swooped down on the city in that guise, motivated by ...

Forty years after the catastrophic gas leak at the Union Carbide factory, which claimed over 5,400 lives and injured more than half a million people, Bhopal’s once-neglected outskirts are now home to ...

Four Decades Of Horror After India's Bhopal Gas Disaster By Abhaya SRIVASTAVA Dec 01, 2024, 9:49 pm EST Share ...

(Beyond Pesticides, December 9, 2024) In recognition of the explosion of a chemical plant in Bhopal, India 40 years ago that was responsible for the death of 20,000 people, U.S. Representative Pramila ...

Indian authorities moved hundreds of tonnes of hazardous waste remaining more than 40 years after the world's deadliest industrial disaster struck the city of Bhopal, media reported on Jan. 2.

Defense in the Union Carbide Bhopal disaster appeal seeks retrial under CrPC 377(3), citing 2010 verdict lacked specific roles for each accused; CBI reply due July 27, 2026.

BHOPAL, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Along the corridor of a rudimentary rehabilitation centre, women in saris and burkhas sit cross-legged on a red and white tiled floor, rocking children ...