Fake grass looks good and unlike real grass, synthetic lawns don't turn brown and don't need water. But looks can be deceiving. Steven Flores said before this week, he wasn't aware that artificial ...

“Never in a million years did I think I’d have fake grass,” said Simone Harouche, a fashion stylist who lives in Los Angeles. A passionate green thumb, Harouche tends a lush property of climbing roses ...

OPINION - Across the nation, there are questions about the use of synthetic turf fields with crumb rubber infill. People are ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever been to an indoor football or soccer arena, you’ve probably seen artificial turf in action. The fake, maintenance-free grass looks like the real thing; but without the need of sun, ...

One of the biggest topics of the NFL season came into renewed focus this week at the league’s fall meetings: players’ preference for natural grass playing fields over artificial turf. In September, ...

There are no political yard signs here, people in Rye used to say, describing the comity of this idyllic suburban community just outside New York City. Some people vote Republican, and some vote ...

When a new football stadium was built at South Alabama, located in one of America's rainiest cities, the decision was made to go with an artificial turf playing surface. At San Diego State, where the ...

Nowhere in the country is turf growing faster than in California—on school athletic fields, city parks and residential lawns.

It's no secret NFL players are trying to get the league to get rid of artificial turf fields, so they can play primarily on natural grass. Lorenzo Alexander played 15 seasons in the NFL, so he spent ...

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. Citing surging demand for soccer fields, a new ...