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 ...

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 ...

Brighton school district officials held a community meeting Tuesday night as parents and neighbors continued to push back against a proposal to replace the large grass ...

PFAS is a 'forever chemical' potentially linked to health risks. Massachusetts has enacted a ban on PFAS in firefighting gear, which goes into effect in 2027. Three synthetic turf fields in Worcester ...

While artificial turf and rock-heavy xeriscapes are marketed as low-maintenance, drought-resistant alternatives to traditional lawns, research by University of Florida scientists shows it comes at ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 18, 2025) A major artificial turf manufacturer’s effort to block a webinar about the hazards of synthetic turf has triggered a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against it. That ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since Cornell University announced the Meinig Fieldhouse Project in October 2023, local environmental advocacy nonprofit Zero ...