Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean coast and later as a researcher studying the impacts of climate change and illegal ...

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 ...

Few plant families are as iconic as the resilient, spiky cactus, thriving in the driest deserts and as well as decorating our offices and homes. Their success in both environments comes down to ...

The Great Plains is surprisingly home to several cold-hardy, native cacti that most aren’t aware of and other closely related succulents. The most widespread and well-known species is the Plains ...

Discover the fascinating world of desert plants and the remarkable adaptations that help them survive extreme heat, scarce ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the arid landscapes of New Mexico, spring brings an unexpected transformation. Desert cacti, often viewed as rugged survivors, ...

We all know cacti store water—but to survive, they migrate their flowers, and so much more. Scientists want to copy the resilient plants' methods to help engineer our future. The creamy ...