An American desert icon is dying off in the southwestern United States. Experts say record-setting summers and intense droughts in Arizona are causing a well-known succulent to struggle. The saguaro ...

Prickly pears are iconic cacti that are easily identified by their paddle-shaped leaves. Native to the southwestern United ...

The desert prickly-pear, known to botanists as Opuntia phaeacantha, is the Southwest's most widespread and abundant species of cactus. Unlike the giant saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) that is restricted ...

A new study shows that demand for wild cactus and rare plants many soon surpass supply in the Chihuahuan Desert of Mexico and the US. Gland, Switzerland – Demand for wild cactus and rare plants by ...

The University of Arizona’s Data Diversity Lab gives researchers a new way to picture the future of life on Earth. By blending ecology, evolution and advanced data science, the lab creates tools aimed ...

The popularity of cacti and succulents has made these once-specialty plants widely available and introduced a new generation ...

There is a specific kind of silence that you only find in the Sonoran Desert. It is not an empty silence but a heavy, ...

With their tough skins, pointy armor and legendary stamina, cacti are made to defend themselves from whatever nature throws at them. But large solar energy facilities are one threat that cacti weren’t ...

These members of the genus Schulumbergea are endemic to a very small habitat along the southeast coast of Brazil. They grow in a series of coastal mountain ranges highly influenced by the proximity of ...