Mortality comes calling for all of us eventually. When your time comes, will your burial arrangements help the planet?

PROVIDENCE – A bill to allow the composting of human remains and a method of dealing with bodies known as water cremation passed the House for the second year in a row on May 29, but this time with a ...

BALTIMORE — It’s almost like a washing machine, if you ask Joseph H. Brown. The casket-shaped metal tank sitting in Brown’s crematory in West Baltimore uses hot water, chemicals and a bit of agitation ...

Decades-Old Rule that Allowed Logging on Vast Swaths of US Land Ruled Unlawful by Oregon Court A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years. This Small ...

Gentle Water Cremation, a Mangonia Park-based company offers a new way of processing human remains that is an alternative to burial or flame cremation.

The majority of people in the U.S. are now cremated after death. To most, that means disposing of a body with fire. But proponents are trying to bring a new form of "cremation" to Indiana — one that ...

Durham University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Already a popular option in the US, and famously chosen by Archbishop Desmond Tutu who died in 2021, alkaline ...

Scotland is set to introduce water cremation — a softer, greener alternative to traditional funerals. Discover how the process works and when ...

Human composting was developed in Washington state in 2019. In two months, bodies are turned into rich soil. "Water cremation" was also part of the House bill. The bill still must pass through the ...