For decades, San Pedro residents have feared the massive tanks that store butane just off Gaffey Street could fuel deadly fires and explosions close to homes, shops and schools. Neighbors have fought ...

Those Texas disasters were triggered by the same chemical blamed in Beirut: ammonium nitrate, a common and mostly unregulated fertilizer stored as pellets that is often used as an explosive in mining ...

When Rayan Eter, a pharmacy graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, first watched the video of the explosion that leveled Beirut’s port on August 4, she stared at her phone in disbelief ...

Aug. 31 (UPI) --The Aug. 4 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon killed 181 people, injured thousands, caused $10 billion to $15 billion in damage and displaced 300,000 people. Despite the strong show of ...

The Department of State said that the Beirut port explosion is "the most recent and tragic demonstration of Lebanon’s dysfunctional political system". At 18.07 on August 4, 2020, the clocks in Beirut ...

Ports throughout Europe have turned away a badly-damaged cargo ship because of its potentially explosive cargo: a mountain of Russian fertilizer that one foreign ambassador called a “floating megabomb ...

Dr Myrna Doumit, President of Order of Nurses in Lebanon, spoke to journalists accredited to the United Nations from around the world at a press conference in Geneva organised by the International ...

On the 4th of August 2020, a massive explosion hit the heart of the city of Beirut. The Epicenter of this explosion was the main port surrounded by the historic center of the city. This scar left more ...

Investigators believe the catastrophic explosion in Beirut last week was likely an accident caused by fire and negligent storage of nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate. That is a chemical compound ...

Last week’s catastrophic explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate at Beirut port has drawn fresh attention to the storage of up to four times this amount at Orica’s Kooragang plant in New South ...

The American University of Beirut issued a press release warning of "imminent disaster" at its hospital "due to the threat of a forced shutdown starting the morning of this coming Monday August 16, as ...

Experts warn that the U.S. is at risk of a deadly accident involving ammonium nitrate, similar to the explosion that destroyed part of the city and killed more than 200 people in Beirut, Lebanon.