On December 3rd 1984, over 500,000 people in the vicinity of the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate, in what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster. [3]

Mar 17, 2025 · The Bhopal disaster was a chemical leak that occurred on December 3, 1984, in the Indian city of Bhopal. It killed an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people. At the time, it was the worst industrial accident in history.

Nov 22, 2023 · The 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India, killed thousands. New research finds babies born to mothers who were pregnant at the time have suffered long-term impacts worse than those directly exposed.

Dec 3, 2024 · In the early hours of December 3, 1984, it did just that, as around 40 tons of it spewed from the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant on the outskirts of Bhopal, India. Dense, toxic...

Feb 21, 2025 · It began with a gas leak at the Union Carbide factory, a pesticide plant located in Bhopal, India, in December 1984. This tragic incident resulted in the release of toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas, exposing hundreds of thousands of people to its deadly effects.

On the night of December 2, 1984, the factory, owned by the U.S. multinational Union Carbide Corporation, accidentally leaked methyl isocyanate and other highly toxic gases into the air,...

May 10, 2005 · On December 3 1984, more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, immediately killing at least 3,800 people and causing significant morbidity and premature death for many thousands more.

Four decades on from the world’s worst industrial disaster, we look back at what happened in Bhopal, India in 1984 and how the toxic after-effects are still being felt to this day. In 1979, the Indian subsidiary of American chemicals giant Union Carbide made the fateful decision to expand a factory in the city of Bhopal.

Jan 28, 1985 · Those are among the findings of a seven-week inquiry begun by reporters of The New York Times after the Dec. 3 leak of toxic methyl isocyanate gas at a Union Carbide plant in the central Indian...

On December 3rd, 1984, in the middle of the night, thousands of people were gassed to death because of a catastrophic chemical leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. More than 150,000 people were left severely disabled, and …