As a reporter at C&EN, I’ve covered several communities affected by environmental disasters. Last year, I visited East Palestine, Ohio, where a freight train had derailed and dumped toxic chemicals, ...

BHOPAL, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of protesters gathered on Wednesday outside the abandoned factory which caused the world's deadliest industrial disaster in the Indian city of ...

Balkrishna Namdev, a 71-year-old social activist and trade union organizer from central India’s Bhopal city, spoke slowly and calmly but with deep conviction, unwearied by the prolonged struggle for ...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thirty years on from the Bhopal disaster, an international film opens on Friday dramatising the story of how an American pesticide factory in India ...

Forty years after the catastrophic gas leak at the Union Carbide factory, which claimed over 5,400 lives and injured more than half a million people, Bhopal’s once-neglected outskirts are now home to ...

Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of one of the worst industrial disasters of the 20th century. Shortly after midnight on December 3, 1984, in the city of Bhopal, India, tons of lethal gases leaked ...

Supporters and survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak, Bhopal, India. EPA-EFE/Sanjeev Gupta In the early hours of December 3 1984, 27 tonnes of toxic gas methyl isocyanate leaked from a storage ...

If the victims were not impoverished, disempowered Indians, the Bhopal disaster would probably be on the lips of every human being alive to this day. People who were in utero during the Bhopal ...