Hughes and his colleague Chris Cooper-Hayes, who has a professional background in landscaping, have founded Eterrna, a ...

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When Lisa Fabbro lost her father a few years ago, the family chose to have him cremated. Back then, Fabbro didn't know there's a way to transform dead bodies into soil. She now imagines an alternative ...

A new form of “green burial” is gaining attention, but its use along the river raises questions about transparency, ethics ...

Illinois could soon legalize human composting — a greener death option that's currently illegal in state. Why it matters: ...

When Stephanie Burris drives by graveyards near her home in Boulder County, Colorado, she sees thousands of tiny landfills: Concrete boxes filled with non-biodegradable caskets, which are lined with ...

Green-Wood Cemetery is going green on death. This week the Brooklyn burial ground announced a new option for leaving this world: composting corpses into nutrient-rich dirt. The nearly 200-year-old ...

Oklahoma is moving closer to becoming the 15th state to legalize "natural organic reduction," a process more commonly known ...

Human compost on farm land and public land would be banned in Fresno County under a proposed ordinance supervisors will ...

A demonstration human composting "vessel" for the deceased, decorated with flowers and compostable mementos, in the USA A TV presenter and author hopes to provide the UK's first human composting ...

A Fresno County supervisor says he’ll introduce an ordinance to halt a type of human composting he recently learned has been used near the San Joaquin River, but advocates say he’s jumping the gun ...

Monica Eng, reporter with Axios Chicago, joins Lisa Dent to discuss Illinois lawmakers discussing human composting. Human ...