The Latest Breaking News from Union Carbide

In the early hours of December 3 1984, 27 tonnes of toxic gas methyl isocyanate leaked from a storage tank at Union Carbide Corporation’s pesticide plant on the outskirts of the central Indian city of Bhopal. Amnesty International estimates that more than 22,000 people have died as a result of…

Nathuram Soni vividly remembers the night 40 years ago when toxic gas swept through Bhopal killing more than 3,500 people in the shanties surrounding the Union Carbide pesticides plant.

I am obsessed with plastic objects. I harvest them from the ocean for the stories they hold and to mitigate their ability to harm. Each object has the potential to be a message from the sea – a poem, a cipher, a metaphor, a warning.

Several Indian gov’t firms bought Union Carbide products through a backdoor channel for up to 14 years.

The lack of a clear stand by the Centre before a Bench led by Justice S.K. Kaul conveys a sea change in the government’s stance

The victims, represented by advocate Karuna Nundy, said the court should hear them irrespective of the government’s decision.

The owner of a 4,000-acre industrial site says it has ended a longstanding agreement to sell the property to a Georgia county seeking to build a launch pad for commercial rockets