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

The Oklahoma State House on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill that would make it legal to use the decomposed and ground-up ...

On Tuesday, Oklahoma's House of Representatives signed off on a proposal that would let families legally turn human remains ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ohio Senate Bill 323, introduced in November by state Sen. Louis Blessing (R-Colerain Township) would regulate the reduction ...

One of the bills lawmakers advanced is aiming to legalize human composting, or in other words, turning human remains into ...

Legislation is still moving the statehouse is renewing a broader conversation about how Illinoisans want to return their dead to the earth — and whether the state is finally ready to allow human ...

Green burials, which return the body to the earth without a casket or embalming, can be cheaper than a conventional burial.

In pursuit of a more eco-friendly future, Green-Wood Cemetery is going back to basics. Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known ...

Friday marked the House’s deadline to pass bills out of committee, with lawmakers sending more than 260 bills to the floor.

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 ...

The question, “if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?” might be more meaningful in Ohio in the future if a new bill passes into law. The legislation would allow human composting. Sen.