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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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

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

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 ...

On Tuesday, Oklahoma's House of Representatives signed off on a proposal that would let families legally turn human remains into garden-ready soil. By a 59-37 vote, lawmakers approved House Bill 3660, ...

Legislation is still moving the statehouse is renewing a broader conversation about how Illinoisans want to return their dead ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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