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 ...

President Teddy Roosevelt, the quintessential conservationist, said, "A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.” While in Tucson, Arizona, ...

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 ...

Read full article: This simple task can increase your comfort -- and save you money -- during the Florida heat wave PHOENIX – If you have ever been to Phoenix, Arizona, you’ve likely seen the saguaro ...

Saguaros are more than an icon of the desert. They are a tool to fight global warming. It’s not fantasy. It’s science. Cacti are carbon-eating machines. That gives Arizona an opportunity to build a ...

ARIZONA (CBSDFW.COM) - A very sticky situation for a driver in Arizona who amazingly escaped injury after going off the roadway and having his car's windshield impaled by a saguaro cactus. According ...

This story was featured in The Optimist newsletter. Sign up here to receive stories of kindness, resilience and the best among us every Wednesday and Sunday. TUCSON — The giant saguaro, an icon of the ...

I had no idea when I moved to Phoenix how much I was going to miss all the trees I grew up with in the Northeast. Floor-to-ceiling greenery with verdant mountains, rushing rivers, deep mysterious ...

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 ...

Catalina State Park officials in Arizona believe powerful monsoon rains brought it down last month. Its trunk has splintered and its large arms are now sprawled on the ground. For around 200 years, a ...