Iranian authorities on Sunday were still working to control fire and smoke unleashed by yesterday’s explosion at a key ...

Nitrification is the process by which bacteria – that usually attach themselves to the root or live in the soil – turn the ammonia and ammonium into nitrites and nitrate. That is the form a ...

A massive explosion and fire rocked a port Saturday in southern Iran purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ...

This is not a pretty sight and has a yield penalty. Urea is converted by the soil bacteria and microbes to ammonium. If the soil is cold this does not happen. The nitrate ‘N’ in Ammonium Nitrate (AN) ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history are still being felt.

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation ...

(Photo: Reuters/Mohamed Azakir) Winnipeg | Reuters — North America’s regulations for handling ammonium nitrate, a potentially explosive product used in fertilizer and in the mining industry, are the ...