Formaldehyde may be one of the biggest cancer-causing air pollutants out there — and a new study allows you to track your ...

which says that formaldehyde — a chemical with a wide variety of household and industrial uses, including in embalming fluids — contributes "more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic ...

Grieving families tasked with laying a loved one to rest normally can choose from among conventional burial, cremation, or donating the body to science. Maplewood Cemetery has introduced another ...

Human composting is and is emerging as an alternative to cremation and burial that is friendlier to the climate and the Earth ...

And traditional burial uses chemicals including formaldehyde and other chemicals used in embalming fluid. Human composting takes surprisingly little to complete. A body is wrapped in a ...

However, many funeral homes require at least 1% of embalming fluid to be formaldehyde before they'll allow a public viewing of the body. "We encourage whatever families want because we're in the ...