Bhopal 25 Years After Union Carbide Disaster

Toxic material from the “biggest industrial disaster in history” continues to affect Bhopalis.
Bhopal 25 Years After Union Carbide Disaster
A police man looks at the site of the deserted Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. Toxic waste strewn around the site is still polluting soil and groundwater. Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images
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A police man looks at the site of the deserted Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. Toxic waste strewn around the site is still polluting soil and groundwater. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
Twenty-five years after an explosion causing a massive gas leak in the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India killed at least 8,000 people, toxic material from the “biggest industrial disaster in history” continues to affect Bhopalis.

A new generation is growing up sick, disabled, and struggling for justice. The effects of the disaster on the health of generations to come—transferred from gas victims to their children and through the ongoing severe contamination caused by the Union Carbide factory—has only started to develop visible forms recently.

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