A Lebanese army helicopter flies over the scene where an explosion hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. Prime Minister Hassan Diab, in a short televised speech, has appealed to ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — If you want to know why fire officials are worried about the raging blaze at a fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem, where ammonium nitrate is stored, you have to look no ...

More than 12 years after Timothy J. McVeigh used ammonium nitrate fertilizer to blow up the Oklahoma City federal building, Congress quietly passed legislation this month to regulate sales of the ...

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 ...

Austin, Feb. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ammonium Nitrate Market size was valued at USD 19.43 Billion in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 28.90 Billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 5.12% from ...

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 highly explosive chemical used in fertilizers, came to be stored ...

WERE DEALING WITH AND HOW MUCH. >> WINSTON-SALEM FIRST RESPONDERS ARE NOW AT WEAVER FERTILIZER PLANT AFTER THE FIRE ERUPTED THERE MONDAY NIGHT. >> LOUIS TRAN WAS AT THIS AFTERNOON’S PRESS CONFERENCE ...

Thirty tons of a potentially explosive chemical went missing from a sealed train car in April, and no one has any clue where it went. The good news is that Union Pacific doesn't have any evidence that ...

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 ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global ammonium nitrate market is expected to post a CAGR of over 3% during the period 2018-2022, according to the latest market research report by Technavio. A key factor ...

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 ...

Investigators probing the deadly blast that ripped across Beirut focused Wednesday on possible negligence in the storage of tons of a highly explosive fertilizer in a waterfront warehouse, while the ...