The Legacy of the Bhopal Chemical Leak - Photo Essays - TIME.
Bhopal disaster: So, how many died? 32 years on, no one sure Thirty-two years since Bhopal gas tragedy, there is no clarity on the number of dead and those affected, say activists who peg the.
The 1984 gas leak in Bhopal was a terrible tragedy that continues to evoke strong emotions even 35 years later. In the wake of the gas release, Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) and its then-chairman Warren Anderson worked diligently to provide aid to the victims and attempted to set up a process to resolve their claims. All claims arising out of.
The 1984 Union Carbide gas tragedy, that killed up to 10,000 of the citizens of Bhopal within 72 hours, has gone on to claim another 25,000 lives to date. The original site of the heavily-polluted pesticide plant was never cleared up and remains, as referred to by Greenpeace, one of the world's 'toxic hotspots'. Thousands families have, for decades, been using water contaminated with toxic.
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Thirty years after the Bhopal disaster, life goes on for the survivors in the communities affected by the gas leak. Jennifer Wells and Spencer Wynn went to Bhopal, India, to document life three decades after poison gas from the Union Carbide plant killed thousands. Read the story and watch the short documentary, The Ghosts of Bhopal.
Skulls discarded after research at the Hamidia Hospital in Bhopal. Medical experts believe that the gas inhaled by the people of Bhopal may have affected the brain.
Today, when the gas leak of 1984 marks any association with Bhopal, it becomes important to trace the city’s rich past to get a true sense of the loss that Bhopal suffered due to the tragedy. Besides the terrible human cost of the tragedy, the event also marked a profound deviation from the sustainable urban practices that are intrinsic to the city’s history and built legacy.