Despite a century-long and worldwide history of tragic ammonium nitrate accidents, only a patchwork of inadequate U.S. safety regulations is in place to avoid more accidents involving this common ...

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Officials in Lebanon believe that 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at a port warehouse in Beirut were the cause of the devastating explosions Tuesday that has killed more than 130 people and ...

Following last month's car bomb blast near Red Fort that claimed 15 lives and left 28 people injured, Delhi Police is ...

The original buyers of the ammonium nitrate that was left at Beirut’s port have told CNN that it had been bought for use in mining. Fábrica de Explosivos Moçambique (FEM), a Mozambican explosives ...

DALLAS, Texas — On Saturday, the town of West, Texas, memorialized and honored fifteen lives claimed during an explosion that changed the course of its small community forever. The tenth anniversary ...

The supervising prosecutor, Angel Kanev, said that the key issue is whether sufficient guarantees have been provided that a ...

The explosion that ripped through Beirut on Tuesday was likely caused by a fire that detonated an estimated 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate, killing at least 100 people and injuring thousands ...

Failures at all levels of government and by the owner of an agricultural retail warehouse led to an explosion that killed 14 people and destroyed sections of the small Texas community of West a year ...

Ammonium nitrate is a commonly used fertilizer, but when mixed with a fuel such as diesel, it makes a powerful explosive – as seen in last week’s fertilizer plant explosion in Texas. But it's the ...

The internal transformations of nitrogen in terrestrial ecosystems exert strong controls over nitrogen availability to net primary productivity, nitrate leaching into groundwater, and emissions of ...