Over the last five years, researchers have found that the death rate for saguaros in the Phoenix area jumped from 1% to 2% ...

Cacti are native to warm desert climates, so they're not very tolerant of cold weather. If you live in an area that gets frost in the winter, it's best to grow your cactus indoors where it will be ...

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona sits along a primary migratory flyway for birds stopping during their long journeys elsewhere. Birders, photographers, and those who simply enjoy ...

Villages in the Valle de Tehuacán and nearby Oaxaca have endured for centuries in a desert environment. One of the staples of this environment was and still is the cactus, which formed the basis ...

The second leg of the trail, the Emery Henderson segment, straddles desert flats and floodplains between the freeway and the Agua Fria River that spills into Lake Pleasant in the northwest Valley.

We all know cacti store water—but to survive, they migrate their flowers, and so much more. Scientists want to copy the resilient plants' methods to help engineer our future.

While cacti are “wonderfully adapted to the desert,” the shallow rooted species reach hard limits when temperatures get as high as we are starting to see and there is no water, said researcher ...

Out in the desert, saguaros have a shallow but extensive root system, as wide as the cactus is tall. Saguaros are heavy, but have an elasticity to them which allows them to withstand wild winds ...

Interest in having cacti as houseplants grew around the world — and so did cactus theft. From the American Southwest to South Africa, desert plants have been targets of plant poaching. Even the ...