The story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys-radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic...

January 15, 1919 : Suddenly the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, was transformed into a sea of dark, flowing molasses. A large tank holding the molasses had exploded, sending shards of metal hundreds of feet away, collapsing buildings, and coating the harborfront with a thick layer of sticky-sweet sludge. What had happened?

Mahesh Mathai's critically acclaimed debut feature 'Bhopal Express' is based on a true story of one of the largest industrial tragedies ever. The story is focused around the explosion of Union Carbide plant tha killed 16,000 people.

Discusses the sources, dangers, and disposal of nuclear and toxic wastes.

Chronicles the January 15, 1919 Boston Molasses Flood that killed twenty-one people when over two million gallons of molasses poured out of the steel tank that stored it and traveled through the city's North End