Minnesota has legalized a process that allows people to, quite literally, become soil after they die. The two- to three-month process transforms the human body into soil "so that our last act on the ...

Most of what goes into U.S. landfills is organic waste, ranging from household food scraps to yard trimmings. That's a problem because in that environment, organic waste is deprived of oxygen, which ...

Minnesota has legalized a process that allows people to, quite literally, become soil after they die. It's called terramation – also human composting or, more formally, natural organic reduction – and ...