When you're scooping out the fireplace, save the ashes to fertilize plants in the garden. Here are seven plants that thrive when you add wood ash to your garden.

After a cozy night by the fireplace, most people scoop out the ash and toss it without a second thought. But did you know ...

There’s a lot to love about mountain ash, a delightful native tree that fits easily into urban and suburban landscapes. It can be grown as a small single-trunk tree or with multiple trunks, giving it ...

NEW YORK - Smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada drove down air quality across swaths of the Eastern U.S. this week, a problem all too familiar in many Western states. In the New York ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced it plans to stop six coal-fired power plants, including two in Michigan, from continuing to dump coal ash into unlined ponds. The agency ...