Botanical illustrations offer mesmerizingly detailed and vividly colored glimpses of the natural world. Now, reports Hakim Bishara for Hyperallergic, more than 150,000 such artworks are freely ...

The return to grass is the fourth surface change since the original 1938 playing surface. 1938-1968: Grass 1969-1994: Artificial Turf 1995-2009: Grass 2010-2018: Artificial Turf 2019: Back to Grass ...

According to the article, natural grass fields cost between $300,000 and $500,000. Then there are the infrastructure and annual maintenance costs that can reach upwards of $1,000,000 a year.

Grass pitches consume a lot of water and frequently need to be replaced, but are the alternatives to natural turf any better? (Credit: Getty Images) Tens of thousands of tonnes of rubber crumbs ...

Most fields range in the 80s, with the occasional test in the 70s or 90s. Natural-grass fields can soften into the 60s following rain. The fields, though, aren’t just tested for hardness.