At the end of the process, loved ones can scatter the compost in places ... arguing that “it removes requirements in existing ...

By Isabella Darcy, NJ State House News Service Moria Kaminski and her husband try to make environmentally friendly choices.

No matter where the body is buried, the microbial network behind the cadaver’s decomposition remains essentially the same. Researchers from Colorado State University (CSU) and the University of ...

But understanding the nuances, especially those introduced by unnatural deaths, requires forensic taphonomy – the science of understanding how bodies break down. Every decomposition process is unique.

Five years after Washington became the first state to legalize natural organic reduction, 13 more states have approved the ...

Families who want to forgo a traditional burial to put their loved ones to rest in a more natural way can now do so in New Jersey.

PHOENIX — There may soon be a new option in Arizona funeral care: human composting. The process, also called natural decomposition, converts human remains into soil and gives grieving family members ...