As of July 1, human composting — also known as natural organic reduction — is now legal in in the state. But it will likely ...

Loop Biotech is offering what they're calling a 'living cocoon' — a casket made of mushrooms and hemp. Here's how it works.

Human composting is one of many more environmentally-friendly alternatives to traditional burial and cremation that have ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers built monumental mounds at Kaillachuro in Peru without kings, rewriting history of "monumental ...

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

A bill that would allow for the “natural organic reduction” or “controlled supervised decomposition” of human remains is on ...

COMMENTARY: The Ascension is crucial in the Catholic Church’s response to the crisis of our time, which is the crisis in the ...

A Colorado funeral home owner accused of storing nearly 190 decomposing bodies and defrauding the government is expected to ...

You may have heard of environmentally friendly options for funerals and burials, but not everyone is familiar with human ...

The mounds aren't just historical artifacts; they’re protected under state and federal law and are vital to the cultural ...