Cactus survival hacks are lifesavers in dry, desert conditions. This smart girl shows how to use cactus for water, food, and protection. These tricks are practical for anyone exploring deserts or dry ...

Each spring, the iconic saguaro cacti looms across parts of Arizona. The prickly mysterious giant grows in the desolate Sonoran desert covering southern Arizona and northern Mexico, but it might be in ...

Fires accelerated by climate change, along with invasive plants and urban sprawl, threaten the saguaros, a keystone species of the Sonoran Desert and a celebrated symbol of the Southwest. A saguaro ...

In the middle of the Bush Fire burn scar northeast of Phoenix, Natural Restorations co-founder Justin Corey demonstrated how to plant a saguaro cactus. First thing to know: They're sharp. Corey ...

Five men who had eaten cactus to survive were rescued from the desert on Wednesday, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said. “[Wednesday] morning, we received a 911 call from a Spanish-speaking male ...

Some artists offer a glimpse of a future that is already occurring in some climates. Others imagine a world past the point of ...

The cacti arrive in buckets and cardboard boxes, in truck beds and plastic cups. Some are prickly green knobs smaller than a fist; others are saguaros a few feet tall—miniature versions of the ...

Michael Eason sat at his desk scrolling through cactus listings on eBay. Eason — a botanist in Alpine, Texas — was looking for something called the Ariocarpus fissuratus. Squat, furrowed and fleeced ...