More fake lawns may be coming to your neighborhood. From the front yards of West Miami-Dade to the waterfront mansions of Fort Lauderdale, artificial turf is appearing more and more. And with the ...

Let’s start with some common sense: Covering the Earth with plastic carpet is a terrible idea. And yet we continue to cover an ever-growing swath of our public and private open spaces with artificial ...

This story was produced in collaboration with CivicStory as part of the New Jersey Sustainability Reporting project. On a hot summer morning, a dozen residents of Scotch Plains gathered under tall ...

Players in the girls 2014 pre-academy soccer team practice at Cubberley’s turf soccer field in Palo Alto on January 28, 2025. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. It’s a dark and frigid Tuesday night but the ...

Super Bowl LVIII will be played on a natural grass field in an indoor stadium in Las Vegas on February 11, 2024. How do you keep a grass field vibrant in such a hostile growing environment like the ...

Natalie Silva, a high school senior in Massachusetts, wants to play soccer in college, but she is still recovering from a right knee injury during a game over a year ago. Silva remembers colliding ...

Summer may be over, but there’s a hot debate brewing that’s becoming more intense and thought provoking by the day, and it’s all about — grass? Yes, grass. As school districts look to resurface their ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 1, 2023) As communities consider maintenance and renovation of their playing fields, it is not uncommon for synthetic (or artificial) turf to come up as an alternative to ...

One New Jersey legislator has called on the Department of Environmental Protection to stop using Green Acres money to install artificial turf, amid concerns about the potentially harmful effects of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California installs more fake grass than any other state each year. Proponents ...