Garden and cleaning fans have been raving about a fence-cleaning product that could remove algae from wooden garden fences in ...

Bird baths should be kept clean to prevent spreading disease to birds. Learn how to properly clean a bird bath to stop algae ...

There's nothing quite like watching birds splash around in your backyard birdbath on a hot summer day. But if you've ever maintained one, you know the frustration of checking on it only to find murky ...

Green patches of algae appearing on your fence can not only look unsightly but also lead to costly replacements if wood rot sets in. Painting over them is a great way to cover them up and spruce up ...

While the Great British weather is nothing if not unpredictable, it’s true that sunshine and warmer temperatures are soon to be well and truly upon us. But as we all take to the outdoors for alfresco ...

Households are being told to put a key item in their birdbaths right now to help attract more birds to their gardens this ...

Not a week goes by that I don’t get a question at the Ask Tim page on askthebuilder.com about cleaning this or that household surface. As it turns out, I happen to know lots about cleaning. I ...

Researchers created a special kind of algae that can grab microscopic plastic pollution out of water almost like a magnet.

Subscribe to the new Harvest newsletter for our latest reporting on agriculture and the environment, behind-the-scenes exclusives, and more. Chemist Susie Y. Dai and her team were trying to create a ...

Across Africa, many rural communities face a growing sanitation crisis. Wastewater treatment systems, where they exist, are often old, overloaded, or broken. In some towns, untreated sewage flows ...