On Tuesday, organisations and activists demanded an empowered commission to ensure that victims of the tragedy receive proper ...

A household question of effectiveness insecticide spray on mosquitoes has left policymakers pondering too. Mosquitoes genes have developed resistance to some insecticides, admit experts. A team of ...

Editor's note: This article has been corrected to reflect that the Bhopal company was majority-owned, not wholly owned, by Union Carbide. Early in the morning on Dec. 3, 1984, a leaking tank within an ...

Thirty years ago, on Dec. 3, 1984, an enormous 40-ton plume of poisonous gas escaped from a Union Carbide insecticide plant in Bhopal, India. Three thousand people died within days, tens of thousands ...

Union Carbide Corp. resumed production of methyl isocyanate in the United States over the weekend for the first time since a leak of the chemical in Bhopal, India, killed 2,500 people and injured ...

Forty years after the Bhopal disaster on December 2-3, 1984, several hundred tonnes of toxic waste still remain around the ill-fated Union Carbide plant. Despite pleas from locals and activists — ...

University of Iowa Professor of English Barbara Eckstein gave a presentation Wednesday at the Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., presenting new research from her current book project, Two ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ELEANOR HALL: Twenty five years after the world's worst industrial accident kills tens of thousands ...

Early in the morning on Dec. 3, 1984, a leaking tank within an insecticide plant unleashed approximately 45 tons of a toxic gas in the northern area of Bhopal, a city in central India. The poisonous ...

Why Dow should assume responsibility for the 1984 disaster in Bhopal. Editor's note: This article has been corrected to reflect that the Bhopal company was majority-owned, not wholly owned, by Union ...