Why is the smell of Arizona's monsoon so distinctive? It releases the aromas of the desert, one ecologist says.

Here's how to reduce water use and have a lush, colorful yard with drought-tolerant landscaping, including native and desert-adapted plants.

Cactuses are arguably the most recognized plants in the desert, and here in Arizona, the saguaro tops the charts. Towering 40 to 60 feet tall when fully grown, these icons of the American West ...

Buffelgrass is the biggest threat to our ecosystem in southern Arizona and now, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is using sheep ...

nickkurzenko / Getty Images. The desert willow is a shrub or small tree that can grow 15-30 feet tall and 12-25 feet wide. Hummingbirds and bees enjoy the nectar from its pinkish-to-violet flowers ...

Saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea), Sonoran Desert, Arizona, United States. A mature saguaro can store 5000 liters of water. To accommodate this it has pleats, like an accordion, that run up its ...

What Should Farmers Grow in the Desert? As the Colorado River withers, a Japanese rubber company tries to persuade Arizona farmers to grow a latex-producing crop that’s adapted to arid conditions.

The Desert Botanical Garden is storing some Tumamoc globeberry seeds, and Reichenbacher is trying to keep some plants alive at his home greenhouse, which could reinvigorate the species, if necessary.

But Bridgestone's interest in the desert shrub ramped up in the early 2010s, when it launched its guayule research initiative and broke ground on a Biorubber Process Research Center in Mesa, Arizona.

Arizona's saguaro cacti, a symbol of the U.S. West, are leaning, losing arms and in some cases falling over as record-breaking extreme heat consumes the state, plant researchers say. "These plants ...

The Crested Saguaro Society began searching the approximately 100,000-square-mile desert for crested saguaros — the largest cactus in the U.S., often growing over 40 feet tall and adorned with a ...

“We saw damage to plants this summer that had never showed heat stress before,” Schilling said. Sunburned leaves of a mock orange shrub on Aug. 23. Brown patches show where the tissue was damaged.