Methyl isocyanate, a pungent, colorless and very flammable liquid used to produce pesticides, evaporates into a deadly gas almost instantly when exposed to air. In the early hours of December 3 ...

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.

ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate -- a chemical building block of life. This is the first ever detection of this ...

In the early hours of December 3, 1984, methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide factory owned by American Union Carbide Corporation, poisoning more than half a million people in Bhopal ...

In the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate (MIC) leaked from the Union Carbide factory, killing 5,479 people and maiming more than five lakh others.

The leak of methyl isocyanate, a lethal gas, from a pesticide plant killed thousands and left thousands more struggling with the loss of family members, paltry compensation and the long-term ...

The 81-year-old Edmonton man was a maintenance engineer at Union Carbide in Bhopal in central India in 1984 when the toxic gas methyl isocyanate leaked from a storage tank on Dec. 2 and 3.

SHORTLY BEFORE midnight on December 2nd 1984 methyl isocyanate (MIC), a highly poisonous gas, began leaking from a storage tank at a pesticide factory in the Indian city of Bhopal. During the ...

On December 2-3, 1984, highly toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked from the now defunct Union Carbide factory, killing 5,479 persons and maiming lakhs in the state capital. It is considered ...

The Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, India Bhopal Medical Appeal and Martin Stott via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Methyl isocyanate, a pungent, colorless and very ...