Most traditional burial practices in industrialized countries have several long-lasting harmful effects on the environment. Wood and metal fragments in coffins and caskets remain in the ground, ...

Fungi are not fussy diners. Cardboard, plastic, jet fuel and asbestos – fungi will devour them all. In 2007, scientists studying Chernobyl’s blighted landscape discovered a fungus capable of “eating” ...

Timothy Baker loved nature, but would not have been able to even comprehend the concept of being turned into a tree after his ...

Archaeologists working across Egyptian burial sites have recovered coffins made from strikingly different materials, from ...