Bay County officials plan to spend more than $4.046 million to convert three fields at the Publix Sports Park from natural grass to artificial turf.

Simply put, those fields are not natural, and that material absorbs all that heat from the sun. And for that reason alone, those fields should be avoided for any kind of sport during extremely hot ...

Santa Monica school district faces backlash over plan to switch grass fields to synthetic turf, ... with bare patches of hard dirt and muddy pockets of thick grass that increase the risk of injury.