Advocates say human composting offers a sustainable, greener alternative to burials and crematoriums, and can also provide a ...

In this April 19, 2019, photo, Katrina Spade, the founder and CEO of Recompose, a company that hopes to use composting as an alternative to burying or cremating human remains, poses for a photo in a ...

Every civilization is ultimately judged not merely by how it governs the living, but by how it honors the dead. That is why the rapid rise of so-called human composting deserves far more public ...

Most of us have thought, at least once, about what we want done with our bodies when we die. Not in a morbid, spiral-at-2am way, necessarily, but in the quiet practical way that surfaces when you’re ...

An Ohio legislator and national funeral company are working to give residents a new option for their remains: "human composting." Why it matters: The burial method is gaining popularity across the ...

Zoom out: The practice is legal in around 14 states, with bills pending in others, per Earth Funeral, another human ...

MISSISSIPPI, USA — In the early hours of August 29, 2005, Biloxi, Mississippi, woke up to a nightmare. Hurricane Katrina wasn’t just a storm. It was a wall of water. “We had 28 feet of water in and ...

This week marks 20 years since the most destructive storm in American history made landfall across the U.S. Gulf Coast. NBC News’ Priscilla Thompson looks back at how Hurricane Katrina unfolded, as it ...