Humans Can Harm Or Help The Environment — Even After They Die

Burying people in cemeteries is just another way humans are messing with the environment.
Agence France-Presse reported bodies buried whole or cremated “leach iron, zinc, sulfur, calcium and phosphorus into the ground that may later be used as farms, forests or parks.” Putting them all in one place deprives soils in other areas of certain nutrients while giving them all to the flora at burial sites.