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About 30 tons of ammonium nitrate disappeared from a rail car on a train traveling to California in April. The chemical compound is used in fertilizers and explosives and can be dangerous to store.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 60,000 pounds of a chemical used as both a fertilizer and an explosive is missing after likely disappearing during a rail ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roughly 30 tons of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as fertilizer and to make explosives, vanished during railway transport last ...

DALLAS, Texas — On Saturday, the town of West, Texas, memorialized and honored fifteen lives claimed during an explosion that changed the course of its small community forever. The tenth anniversary ...

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 ...

About 60,000 pounds of a chemical used as both a fertilizer and an explosive is missing after likely disappearing during a rail trip from Wyoming to California last month, according to federal records ...

The high-intensity blast near the iconic Red Fort in Delhi that killed nine on November 10, 2025, is reported to have involved Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil (ANFO) and detonators, sources reveal.

Russia, which controls up to ‌40% of the global trade in ammonium nitrate, said on Tuesday it will stop exports of the fertilizer for one month until April 21 to ensure sufficient supply during the ...