Nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate - taken from a ship off the coast of Beirut six years ago and then stored in a warehouse - has been blamed for the explosion that ripped through the port ...

A large stockpile of ammonium nitrate is believed to have caused the explosion in the Port of Beirut.

Beirut officials have identified ammonium nitrate as the base component of Tuesday's explosion. Nearly 6,000 tonnes of the chemical ignited and burst through a port in the Lebanese capital ...

Editor’s Note: This article is dedicated to the firefighters who were killed when an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West ...

Ammonium nitrate is an odorless crystalline substance that has caused numerous industrial explosions over the decades.

Ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in fertiliser bombs, has been identified as the cause of one of the largest ever peacetime explosions at a warehouse in Beirut.

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Ten years after fertilizer explosion, the impact ripples through one Texas town. And experts warn more work is needed to avert ammonium nitrate disaster.

Ammonium nitrate is a commodity chemical that is widely used as a fertilizer and as an industrial explosive, but it is well known that poor storage can significantly raise the risk of an explosion ...

Iranian authorities have said there was a “failure to observe safety principles” at the port of Bandar Abbas, where an explosion Saturday killed dozens of people, but testing is required to ...