(PARIS and LONDON) — An explosion at a warehouse stocked with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the Beirut port changed the face of a city almost instantly. The exact cause of the Beirut blast is ...

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 ...

Beirut was declared a "disaster city" by authorities on Wednesday, in the wake of a huge explosion in the port of the Lebanese capital that left at least 135 people dead and 5,000 injured. The number ...

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 ...

Investigators have pinpointed ammonium nitrate fertilizer as the cause of the devastating blast in West. But it isn’t easy to explode. Experts say this common solid nitrogen fertilizer isn’t even ...