Ammonium nitrate, which Lebanese authorities have said was the cause of the Beirut blast, is an odorless crystalline substance commonly used as a fertilizer that has been the cause of numerous ...

On April 17, 2013, a tragedy unfolded in a the town of West, Texas, as an explosion erupted at a seed and fertilizer storage facility.

The colossal explosion in Lebanon’s capital this week was apparently caused when more than 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly volatile chemical, detonated. The stockpile had been left for years ...

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On April 16, 1947, French cargo ship in Galveston Bay exploded, killing nearly 600. It spawned first big class-action lawsuit ...

A fertilizer explosion that killed 15 people and injured dozens in West, Texas, in April 2013 was intentionally set, government officials said during a press conference Wednesday. "The fire has been ...

After a deadly blast involving the chemical at the port in Lebanon's capital city, Beirut, residents of Newcastle, north of ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Seismological data suggests that six blasts preceded the Beirut port explosion, the last of them a combustion of fireworks that apparently set off a warehouse full of ammonium ...

More than four years after a potentially deadly fire destroyed a Winston-Salem fertilizer plant, settlements have reached $12.5 million in a class-action lawsuit related to the blaze. In the second of ...