The Union Carbide chemical gas disaster in Bhopal, India in 1984 was one of the worst industrial disasters in history, killing thousands and causing […] Skip to content All Sections ...

All 337 tonnes of hazardous waste from the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal have been incinerated at a disposal ...

Shortly after midnight on Dec. 3, 1984 — 40 years ago today — about 45 tons of highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked out of a Union Carbide-owned pesticide factory in Bhopal, India ...

The incineration of toxic waste is an event closes a single, but important, chapter in the sordid history of the 1984 Bhopal disaster ...

The process to bury the ash and other residue at scientifically designed landfill sites would begin soon, officials said.

On the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate (MIC) leaked from the Union Carbide pesticides factory killing 5,479 people and leaving more than five lakh ...

India’s notoriously sluggish courts have been especially slow in this case. Warren Anderson, the chairman of Union Carbide, was arrested during his visit to the site shortly after the accident ...

A survivor's story. Rehana Bi was 16 years old in 1984 when the accident happened. She lived in a neighborhood right near the pesticide plant along with her three brothers, father and mother, who ...

The Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, India Bhopal Medical Appeal and Martin Stott via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Methyl isocyanate, a pungent, colorless and very ...

They centre around The Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) plant in Bhopal, India which started production in 1969, producing carbaryl insecticides. The plant initially used imported Methyl Isocyanate (MIC ...

Union Carbide waste disposal: Two protesters attempt self-immolation in Pithampur, hospitalised The Madhya Pradesh High Court had on December 3 rebuked the authorities for not clearing the Union ...

Bhopal/ Indore, Dec 29 (PTI) The work to remove 377 metric tonnes of hazardous waste from the now-defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal got underway on Sunday ahead of its planned disposal near ...