Environmental disasters in India

gas leak accident in Bhopal, India on 3 December 1984

Pokhran (official spelling Pokaran; ) is a town and a municipality located 112 km east of Jaisalmer city in the Jaisalmer district of the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is situated in the Thar Desert region. Surrounded by rocks, sand and five salt ranges, the word "Pokaran" (पोकरण) means "place surrounded by five salt-ranges" in Rajasthani. The site for India's first and second underground nuclear weapon test is near Pokhran.

gas leak incident in Visakhapatnam, India

lake in the southeast Bengaluru

environmental contamination incident in India

Vultures endangered due to drugs in carcasses