About 60,000 pounds of an explosive chemical disappeared from a rail car last month as it was being shipped through the western US, according to reports. Explosives company Dyno Nobel reported the ...

Across the central U.S., nitrate from crop fertilizer and livestock facilities is seeping into water underground. Many family ...

AMES, Iowa – The underground tiles that drain farm fields can release water into remote and shallow waterways. It’s not ...

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 ...

It’s been one week since several tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut, Lebanon, killing at least 171 people and injuring thousands more. NBC 7 Investigates wanted to know how much of the ...

Roughly 60 million Americans may be drinking tap water with nitrate levels that exceed health-protective benchmarks, ...

(Reuters) - Lebanese authorities said 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate had been stored for years at the Beirut port without safety measures. That stockpile exploded on Tuesday, killing more than 150 ...

Engineers have created a solar-powered electrochemical reaction that not only uses wastewater to make ammonia -- the second most-produced chemical in the world -- but also achieves a solar-to-fuel ...

Potassium nitrate (KNO 3), known historically as saltpeter or the mineral niter, is a common salt with multiple uses. It has been known since antiquity; an early appearance in the chemical literature ...

Lebanese officials knew that more than half the bags of a 2,750-ton stockpile of ammonium nitrate that caused a deadly explosion in Beirut were damaged six years ago but took no action to dispose of ...