The Lebanese capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday evening local time by an explosion that has killed at least 78 people and injured thousands more. The country’s prime minister Hassan Diab said the ...

In the days after the West Fertilizer Co. plant exploded, the Office of the Texas State Chemist released a somewhat alarming figure: West was just one of nearly 600 fertilizer businesses in the state.

Ammonium nitrate used in agricultural fertilizers continues to be costly and it’s getting harder to find, experts say. Some companies have opted out of marketing ammonium nitrate altogether because of ...

Ammonium nitrate is a controlled substance in India. So how the terrorists managed to get such large quantities of ammonium ...

Federal and state legislators have, at best, paid lip service to the egregious regulatory problems exposed by the explosion April 17 in West. Little has happened in terms of legislation that might ...

A 30-ton shipment of a chemical that can be used as fertilizer or an explosive is missing from a California-bound railroad car after rail officials confirmed it disappeared during a trip across the ...