Citing environmental and noise pollution, Palm Beach's council wants its neighboring city to rethink its use of fireworks and ...

Eco-friendly fireworks contain fewer chemicals and produce less smoke because they use a "clean-burning" [nitrogen base], nitrocellulose, instead of the charcoal or sulfur that traditional ...

The discovery of fireworks parallels the discovery of gunpowder. All of the important chemical substances needed to make gunpowder—saltpeter (KNO 3), sulfur and carbon—were found in ancient China. The ...

It's important to recognize the responsibility that comes with using fireworks. But we should be able to find a way to have ...