If you’d happen to walk in the Chihuahuan Desert between Mexico in the US, you might come across one of these things. The ...

A little-known desert berry may hold the key to fighting diabetes. Scientists may have uncovered a surprising new weapon in the fight against diabetes: the fruit of an ancient desert plant. Known as ...

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 ...

A team of researchers at The University of New Mexico has uncovered how a peculiar, prehistoric plant might unlock new ways ...

w A succulent is a plant that stores water. A cactus is a specific type of succulent. The way desert plant experts explain it is: "All cactus are succulents, but not all succulents are cactus." For ...

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 ...

Nurtured by Nature, The Mysterious Crested Saguaro, Restoring the Flora, Desert Willow. This week on a special desert plants episode of Arizona Illustrated…how a “nature nerd” turned his passion into ...

APS plans to build the Desert Sun Power Plant, a new natural gas facility west of Gila Bend, to address an "unprecedented" surge in energy demand, driven largely by new data centers running artificial ...