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. Residents of ...
WARNING: Distressing content. The horrifying gas leak killed thousands and injured half a million more. Decades later, ...
They arrived in Gauley Bridge by the dozens, and then by the hundreds, until their numbers reached into the low thousands, swarming the tiny West Virginia town with the kind of hope that’s hard to ...
Dhar, Feb 13 (PTI) The process of unloading 337 tonnes of hazardous waste, transported from Bhopal-based defunct Union Carbide factory in container trucks, began at an incineration unit in Pithampur ...
BHOPAL, India, June 7 (Reuters) - A court on Monday convicted seven Indian former employees of U.S. chemical firm Union Carbide of negligence and sentenced them to two years in jail for the world's ...
After years of puzzling over the possibility, many scientists—most notably those at the National Academy of Sciences—have recently concluded that there may well be life on Mars. The news came as no ...
TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A jury in Los Angeles County Superior Court this week was unanimous in finding that Union Carbide Corp. acted with malice in the asbestos-related death of a ...
A Union Carbide affiliate on Monday asked a US federal jury to award it hundreds of millions of dollars in damages against the Shell Oil unit of energy giant Royal Dutch/Shell for alleged infringement ...