The green option, also called “natural organic reduction,” transforms a body into nutrient-dense soil in just a few weeks.

The historic cemetery is running out of space for new graves, and plans to offer a more sustainable alternative to cremation ...

Everyone is dying to try this new burial trend. Eco-conscious New Yorkers can soon turn their corpses into compost as part of ...

Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery is set to become the first on the East Coast to offer human composting.

In what could be a first for our area, Green-Wood Cemetery is Brooklyn is planning to offer so-called "human composting." ...

"Cemeteries are not just for the dead, they're for the living." Charlotte Canda was coming home from her 17th birthday party in the winter of 1845 in New York when she was thrown from her horse-drawn ...

Green-Wood Cemetery will start offering a service called Natural Organic Reduction, where a human body is decomposed naturally and turned into soil.

Green-Wood Cemetery is moving forward to become the first cemetery in New York state to offer natural organic reduction. It's ...

GREEN-WOOD HEIGHTS — THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY WILL PRESENT “Battle of Brooklyn and the Meaning of Freedom” this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Battle of Brooklyn, the first to happen after the ...