Investigate Midwest is a data-centric newsroom. Our weekly Data Harvests aim to visualize key agricultural statistics, and our investigative stories are often rooted in original data analysis. Of the ...

The Third Yunnan Blueberry Conference and the release ceremony of the "Xinhua--Yunnan Honghe Blueberry Industry Development Index Report" opened on December 19 in Jianshui County, Honghe Hani and Yi ...

MIAMI — Miami-Dade County is setting a path towards scaling composting countywide. The proposed new ordinance will be seen by Miami-Dade commissioners on Thursday for a second reading and final vote.

There’s a new organic compost on the market in New Jersey — human. No, this is not a scene from “The Sopranos.” Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to allow human composting after death — a concept pitched as an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation that involves turning loved ones into ...

After many starts and stops, curbside composting has expanded citywide. Now, separating organic waste from landfill trash is mandatory in every borough. And it’s working — the city is capturing 5 ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

Minnesota has legalized a process that allows people to, quite literally, become soil after they die. The two- to three-month process transforms the human body into soil "so that our last act on the ...

Known as "organic human reduction" under Georgia law, human composting is basically turning a body into soil instead of ashes as with typical cremation. According to Brittanica, it typically involves ...