Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Greenpeace Greenpeace and Bhopal disaster survivors transported toxic waste from the Bhopal disaster site to Dow Chemical Co's largest European operation, Dow Benelux, in the Dutch town of Terneuzen. About 20 activists were arrested after they unloaded 250 kg of the waste contained in seven barrels. The waste was abandoned …
Press release hoax . The Bhopal Gas Disaster: Targeting Dow Chemical . USA Negligence, not sabotage, according to a New Scientist report, caused the 1984 Bhopal disaster, when toxic gases leaked out of a Union Carbide pesticide plant, killing about 5,000 people. Another 15,000 people have died over the years …
The authors have reviewed studies of human health effects that resulted from exposure to methyl isocyanate gas that leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in 1984. The studies were conducted during both the early and late recovery periods. Major organs exposed were the eyes, respiratory tract, and …
EXPOSURE: PORTRAIT OF A CORPORATE CRIME Photographs of Bhopal by Raghu Rai . Published by Greenpeace International . August 2002 Photographer Raghu Rai captures the ghastly scenes of the morning after the Bhopal gas disaster. And the plight of the hapless survivors of the world's deadliest industrial catastrophe. Deeply moved …
distance from the poison-producing plant was not the only deciding factor. Unlike what previous research would have us believe, the adverse health effects resulting from the Bhopal gas tragedy cannot be assessed only on the basis of how near the victim lived to the Union Carbide plant. Several other factors
Nine years after the Bhopal methyl isocyanate disaster, we examined the effects of exposures among a cross-section of current residents and a subset of those with persistent symptoms. We estimated individual exposures by developing exposure indices based on activity, exposure duration, and distance of residence from the plant. Original Source
This paper describes the inadequacies in the response of the Union Carbide Corporation to the accidental release of the highly toxic gas, methyl isocyanate, from its plant in Bhopal, India in 1984. Over 20,000 people are estimated to have died from exposure to this gas since 1984, with some 120,000 …
bhopal gas victims are still facing the backlash of a tragedy that happened 17 years ago. Toxic chemicals released from the Union Carbide factory have not just seeped into the soil and groundwater but now traces of these toxins are being found in mother's milk too. A fact-finding mission (FFM) …
What were the ingredients of the deadly cocktail that tank no. 610 at Union Carbide India Limited's (ucil) Bhopal plant spewed on December 3-4, 1984? So potent was the mix that 3000 lives were lost then. The toll is now 11,000 and mounting. Yet the victims and medical fraternity are …
This appeal presents the latest of many legal battles stemming from perhaps history's worst industrial catastrophe: the 1984 toxic gas disaster at a chemical plant in Bhopal, India. Earlier actions included scores of individual and class-action complaints filed in federal courts throughout the United States and consolidated in the United …
the Bhopal gas tragedy victims suffered yet another setback when the Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust refused to entertain their compensation claims without a copy of the judgement given by the judiciary. The hospital trust, funded by the us multinational Union Carbide Corporation, was set up by the Supreme Court as …
on the basis of a fresh petition filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan and Bhopal Group for Information and Action, the Supreme Court has ordered that compensation should be paid to some of the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy. As per the notification dated March 2, …
as preparations for yet another anniversary to mark the Bhopal gas tragedy got underway, a rude shock awaited the victims. The Madhya Pradesh government was reportedly planning to close the down the Gas Relief and Rehabilitation department. Sixteen years ago, a leak of the deadly methyl isocyanate from the Union …
in a dramatic move, victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy filed a lawsuit against Union Carbide Corporation (ucc), its former chief executive officer (ceo) Warren Anderson and Praxair Incorporated, a ucc-owned subsidiary that still conducts business in India. The suit, filed on November 15 in New York's southern district …
The Union Carbide India Ltd. (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, which used to manufacture (among other products) the pesticide Sevin (carbaryl) gained world-wide recognition as a result of the tragic chemical disaster on the night of 2-3rd December 1984. The accident, involving a massive release of methylisocyanate (MIC) gas, resulted …
In May 1999, Greenpeace International, along with the Bhopal-based NGOs Bhopal Group for Information and Action and Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghatana, carried out an investigation of the former UCIL site. Samples of soil were collected both from areas once used for waste disposal, and around the former Sevin …
famida , 40, a resident of Bhopal's Jayaprakash Nagar was "anything but dead' for 14-odd years after the disastrous methyl iso cyanate ( mic ) gas leak in Bhopal in 1984. Two of her family members choked to death while running for their lives. She was left alive, but barely …
