Twenty-four years later

On Dec. 3, 1984, a tank inside the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal released 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas, killing at least 3000 people. More than 500,000 people were declared to be affected by the gas and awarded an average of $550 in compensation.

Hundreds of tons of waste still languish on the old grounds of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, nearly a quarter-century after a poison gas leak killed thousands and turned this ancient city into a notorious symbol of industrial disaster.

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