Although sunlight is one of the cleanest forms of renewable energy available, clearing large swathes of desert habitat to ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — It’s not just people at risk from the heat. Even tough desert plants can have trouble when heat’s this extreme and this prolonged. Saguaros live an average of 150 to 175 years ...

Noelle Johnson moved from coastal California to the desert in 1986, and everything she planted in her new garden died. She wasn't used to the extremes of Arizona's hot and dry climate and neither were ...

From a sprawling botanical museum in Arizona to a cliffside succulent sanctuary in France, these gardens prove the desert is ...

The "Desert Pulse" project was a two-year process to put together, and involved sensors and other technology at around 20 ...

Increasingly frequent and severe heat waves in the Southwest are damaging some desert plants known for thriving in harsh conditions. Saguaro cacti and agave have both suffered in sweltering weather ...

The desert plants gathered by the Hohokam - and later the Tohono O'odham - for food, medicine, tools and other things are still around. Even so, many contemporary Tucsonans don't recognize their uses.

I took a drive to Phoenix, Arizona, just a week into May to see my son and his family. What made it a phenomenal drive was that much of the desert in both California and Arizona was receiving ...

Where it rains very little, you learn to be attuned to any sign the weather could turn wet—any sign that relief is imminent.