Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They ...

Over the last five years, researchers have found that the death rate for saguaros in the Phoenix area jumped from 1% to 2% ...

A recent study by Dr. James Watson and his colleagues examined changes in projectile points, mortuary practices, and ...

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. Kris Van Cleave ...

Arizona Game & Fish/Bureau of Land Management/Flickr Environmentalists have returned to federal court in hopes of securing Endangered Species Act protections for the Sonoran desert tortoise.

That came almost a half-century after his first major work, “The Changing Mile,” showed how climate, livestock grazing, fire suppression and other forces had transformed the Sonoran Desert ...

How to Survive shares desert survival lessons from the Sonoran Desert, covering essential skills for harsh conditions. They teach water sourcing, shelter building, and heat management. This guide ...

Joaquín Murrieta-Saldívar, heading from Mexico to California in the early ’90s, handed his passport to the Border Patrol agent at the crossing station in Tijuana.

Biden’s visit to the desert also comes nearly a year after his wife, first lady Jill Biden, was the headlining speaker for a private Democratic fundraiser in Rancho Mirage.

The Brief Two kids fell from a moving pick-up truck at Lake Pleasant's Desert Tortoise Campground around 3 p.m. on June 5, authorities said. There's no word on what led to the kids falling out of ...

Here's an inconvenient truth: Climate change denial is the real grift Vincent J. Battaglia Special to The Desert Sun 0:04 ...