Bodies don't go into the pods. Rather, cremated human remains are placed in the biodegradable, plastic-derived urns, and then those urns get covered in soil. After that, a pre-existing tree gets ...

The business of paying respect to the dead can be an eco-unfriendly matter, whether opting for a wooden coffin that contributes to deforestation, or a cremation service that produces carbon emissions.

Anthropologist Barbara J. King checks out a new project that will offer fetal-position, tree-topped burials in underground pods. It's a familiar conversation in our house. When my husband dies, he ...