WHEN a pet dies it feels like losing a family member – for many, they want to bid farewell to their beloved friend with a bit ...

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” ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. — For more than a year, Max Justice has been on a mission to bury the way we’re buried. Deciding to abandon metal caskets, he feels the funeral industry has mush-room to grow, ...

The chambers – which look disconcertingly like pizza ovens but reach 1,000C at their most intense – are being operated by 39-year-old Jaime Dias. As flames engulf the body of each animal, he murmurs ...

PETALING JAYA: It used to be common for pet owners to find a vacant piece of land to bury their pets, but times have changed. Many Malaysians now hold proper funerals to give their pets a dignified ...