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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four experts were sued for defamation ahead of a seminar where they planned to talk about research into the potential health risks on playgrounds and sports fields nationwide. By Hiroko Tabuchi and ...

This story was produced in collaboration with CivicStory as part of the New Jersey Sustainability Reporting project. It was originally published in August 2023 and has been updated with additional ...

As Santa Clara County supervisors consider a proposed artificial turf ban on county-owned land, parents and activists are pointing to the disposal of a local high school’s old field to highlight ...

For homeowners all over the United States, having a well manicured lawn is a source of pride. However, it can also be a major source of stress due to the amount of care and consistently that is ...

Yale epidemiologist Vasilis Vasiliou won’t let any of his five children play on artificial turf fields. His research on the infill for synthetic turf — typically ground-up tires — identified the ...

Jerked Ruiz installs some artificial turf in a house in the East Hialeah area, by his brother's company Yoandy Landscaping that specialized in installing this kind of material in high demand in the ...