Both Nordike and the design sister duo head to Hobby Lobby for the base of their artificial container gardens. While the ...

So those early generations of artificial turf created a difficult situation for this new generation of turfs." Fake grass was made famous in 1996 when the Astrodome installed AstroTurf.

The artificial turf market is now opening the doors for another way soybeans can be utilized for products in the U.S. United Soybean Board (USB) partnered with SYNLawn to create the soy-based turf.

Simply put, it's fake grass atop fake soil. But it is a highly complex product — make no mistake, this is a multimillion-dollar industry — and the advances made since the early days of the mid ...

Artificial turf exacerbates the effects of climate change. On a 90-degree Los Angeles day, the temperature of artificial turf can reach 150 degrees or higher — hot enough to burn skin.

Still, a push continues on Long Island—indeed across the U.S.—for artificial turf. An estimated 12,000 artificial turf fields now exist in the nation and 1,200 are being installed annually.

There are also multiple types of turf and grass in use, perhaps further complicating matters. The league doesn’t have a specific regulation on the type of surfaces teams lay down. As of now, 15 ...

Washington State University (WSU) scientists are on a mission to move away from artificial turf and back to real grass. WSU Professor Michael Neff is leading the charge. "The whole goal of this ...