The house plants in Dianne Thompson-Stanciel’s Tinton Falls home are thriving with the help of a new compost. The leaves on her monstera deliciosa are a bright evergreen, their vines climbing taller ...

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at the environmental impacts of two alternatives to burial and ...

PROVIDENCE – A bill to allow the composting of human remains and a method of dealing with bodies known as water cremation passed the House for the second year in a row on May 29, but this time with a ...

New Jersey is living up to its nickname even in death. The Garden State approved a bill that legalizes human composting, an alternative to traditional burials in which a corpse is transformed into ...

TRENTON — How would you like to spend eternity nourishing a flower garden, or being part of a nature trail or a patch of a grassy hillside? New Jersey lawmakers are considering whether to allow the ...

There’s a new organic compost on the market in New Jersey — human. No, this is not a scene from “The Sopranos.” Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize ...

Human composting, an ecological alternative to burial or cremation, will become legal in Georgia beginning July 1. Governor Brian Kemp signed Senate Bill 241 into law May 9, making Georgia the 13th ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey has become the 14th state to allow the composting of human bodies as an alternative to burial or cremation. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed the legislation last week ...

TINTON FALLS, N.J. (PIX11) — Dianne Thompson-Stanciel can still feel the presence of her late husband in her home. “He was a very talented man,” said Thompson-Stanciel. “He was also a very nice man.