Home reverse osmosis systems are becoming more popular in central Iowa as nitrates affect public drinking water supplies.

Learn about sodium nitrate, including the pros and cons, whether it’s safe, and if there are benefits to it.

Europe and Australia long ago recognized the benefits of a fertilizer formula that doesn’t blow up. Here, the chemical industry fought back.

Nitrate is generally considered a water pollutant and an undesirable fertilizer residue in the food chain. Research in the 1970s indicated that, by reducing nitrate to nitrite, commensal bacteria ...

The Turner Classic Movie Festival in Hollywood built a booth to project old films on nitrate stock. A firewall was needed. Nitrate can catch on fire and blow up — just one reason it's no longer ...

Silver Nitrate is a subversive occult horror set within the film industry of Mexico City in the ’90s from Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

Sodium nitrate can be found in plants and unregulated drinking water. Nitrogen is turned into sodium nitrate in soil and is necessary for plant growth.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel, “Silver Nitrate,” is about friends whose attempt to lift an old curse unleashes something even more terrifying.

Nitrate is a drinking water contaminant that can cause “blue baby syndrome,” a condition that prevents oxygen from circulating in the blood and can kill infants.

Set in Mexico City in 1993, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's latest novel is steeped in cinematic history and lore, as well an eerie well of myth that recalls H.P. Lovecraft, albeit in a more progressive form.

High nitrate levels have been found in University Park, Kankakee and Peotone drinking water and infants are at risk, health officials warned Sunday.