Alkaline hydrolysis relies on water and alkaline chemicals to turn a dead body into bone fragments and a neutral effluent.

The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, in collaboration with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), is actively investigating the ...

Archeologist Alex DeGeorgey knows what he will find when he lands in Los Angeles on Feb. 18: in Altadena, Pasadena and ...

Opponents of the proposed rule largely argued against the unknown risks of soil made from human remains. Andrew Anderson, ...

The bones and skulls were found strewn among animal remains, a burial that was meant to humiliate a conquered rival even after defeat ...

The process of alkaline hydrolysis, commonly known as 'aquamation,' is legal in 28 states as a means for the dissolution of ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

A bill that would legalize human composting, also known as natural organic reduction, as an alternative to other burial ...

A Maryland woman said she was horrified to learn that the crematorium she picked to handle her father’s remains was cited for ...

Francisco Rivero is on a mission to spread the word about a gentler, environmentally friendly alternative to cremation.