Saguaro cactuses tower over Arizona's desert landscape, each year inching higher and higher for hundreds of years as they watch time pass. While they can grow to unique heights, one cactus holds the ...

Saguaro cactuses are an iconic symbol of the American Southwest and the country's largest cactus species. But the world-famous cactuses are beginning to wither and die amidst the state’s ...

Arizona's saguaro cactus has evolved to thrive in the extreme climate of the Sonoran Desert, but after decades of rising heat, even these towering icons are showing signs of stress. "It doesn't take a ...

Bearing the state flower of Arizona, the saguaro cactus remains an essential part of the Sonoran Desert’s identity. The 40-60 foot-tall saguaro and its fruit are great natural resources for both ...

Arizona's saguaro cacti, a symbol of the U.S. West, are leaning, losing arms and in some cases falling over as record-breaking extreme heat consumes the state, plant researchers say. "These plants are ...

LUKEVILLE, Ariz. — In Arizona, cactus rustling — stealing or killing the state’s iconic saguaros — is a felony. It’s illegal to shoot or deface the iconic cactuses or to remove them from parks, where ...

MARANA, Ariz. - A 40-foot-tall Saguaro cactus known as the "symbol of the Sonoran Desert" has fallen. The "Strong-Arm" Saguaro that sat in the Tortolita Preserve in the Dove Mountain area near Tucson ...

Science Friday’s broadcast in Phoenix, Arizona, got us thinking more about a popular desert fixture—the saguaro cactus, a huge plant with a big appetite for water. Did you know that… 1. Saguaros are ...

Fittingly enough, the future of the saguaro begins in the Old Pueblo. Researchers from the U.S. and Mexico gathered in Tucson earlier this month to launch the largest and most wide-ranging effort yet ...

The saguaro cactus is being threatened by drought conditions and rising temperatures. Scientists surveying Saguaro National Park in Arizona say the situation is increasing the mortality rate of young ...

In Phoenix, the summer of 2020 was so hot even the cactuses couldn’t stand it — literally. In the weeks after August, the hottest month in the hottest summer on record in a place already famous for ...

The saguaro cactus, an iconic symbol of the Southwest and a key cultural touchpoint to desert tribal peoples such as the Tohono O’odham, may one day begin to fade from some parts of the Sonoran Desert ...