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 become more common in the last five years, says Marion Friel, owner and funeral ...

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 ...

DENVER (AP) — A funeral home owner in Colorado accused of storing nearly 190 decomposing bodies in a room-temperature ...

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