A fire at the Weaver Fertilizer Plant in Winston-Salem, N.C. forced 6,500 local residents to evacuate late Monday night and into early Tuesday morning. The lawn and garden fertilizer plant is home to ...

(PARIS and LONDON) — An explosion at a warehouse stocked with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the Beirut port changed the face of a city almost instantly. The exact cause of the Beirut blast is ...

(AP) – A fertilizer plant exploded in the small Central Texas farming community of West, about 20 miles north of Waco, leaving as many as 15 people dead and at least 160 injured. Three to five ...

Lebanon's government has blamed a large quantity of poorly stored ammonium nitrate for the huge blast that rocked its capital, Beirut, killing scores of people and devastating swathes of the city.

Fireworks and ammonium nitrate appear to have been the fuel that ignited a massive explosion that rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut, experts and videos of the blast suggest. The scale of the ...

David Sirota writes: Occurring in the heart of a nation whose government data documents 4,500 workplace deaths every year at a cost of $250 billion, the deadly blast originated at a fertilizer plant ...

Deadly explosions involving ammonium nitrate: Aug. 4, 2020: The investigation into an explosion in the harbor of Lebanon's port city of Beirut is focusing on how 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, a ...

Rescuers and civil defence gather at Beirut port’s silo on August 5, 2020 in the aftermath of a massive explosion in the Lebanese capital. (Photo: AFP) Ammonium nitrate, which Lebanese authorities ...

Investigators have pinpointed ammonium nitrate fertilizer as the cause of the devastating blast in West. But it isn’t easy to explode. Experts say this common solid nitrogen fertilizer isn’t even ...