The load of ammonium nitrate was part of a 20,000-tonne load of the fertiliser on board MV Ruby, which was dubbed a 'floating ...

Exposure to ammonium nitrate, a key component of PM2.5 pollution and a product of agricultural emissions, has been found to affect learning ability and memory in children, according to a new study.

Deputy Secretary Torres Small said the Fertilizer Production Expansion ... to expand the production capacity of its urea and ammonium nitrate facility to 580,000 tons per year.

Facilities that handle bulk quantities of ammonium nitrate fertilizer but don’t yet have an environmental emergency plan will now have to come up with one. The product, in bulk form, is one of 41 ...

The MV Ruby's cargo of 20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate will be moved to another vessel at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. It was previously anchored about 11 miles (17km) off the coast of Margate in ...

Anyone selling ammonium nitrate fertilizer in Canada will need to be registered and its resale will be prohibited under new federal regulations starting June 1. The new regulations announced Wednesday ...

These industrial mineral fertilizers are not only made from finite resources (as in the case of phosphorus), but also require a lot of energy and fossil fuels to produce (as in the case of nitrogen).

Scientists in Ferrara, Italy, have conducted a study using microbial biofertilizers and algae-based biostimulants instead of synthetic fertilizers on tomato crops — and the results were very promising ...

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117585 ,Republic of Singapore Institute of Materials Research and Engineering,Agency for Science, ...

But, as new research shows, that disaster actually may have been beneficial for the early evolution of life by serving as "a giant fertilizer bomb" for the bacteria and other single-celled ...

The nitric acid market is evolving due to the increasing global demand for fertilizers and agricultural chemicals. One key trend shaping the market is the growing use of ammonium nitrate in ...