Tucker, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, carries on the ancient custom of plucking the fruit from the giant saguaro cactus, but she must work quickly. Once the rains soak the land ...

Tucson is launching its courtship of online retail giant Amazon by sending a plant — a really big plant. On Wednesday, Sun Corridor Inc. loaded a 21-foot saguaro cactus on a flat-bed truck to ...

One of Arizona's national parks was named among the top three hidden gems of the national parks system. Here's where and why ...

An American desert icon is dying off in the southwestern United States. Experts say record-setting summers and intense ...

Giant groundsels are rare plants that grow up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall. They are endemic to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, a dormant volcano in Tanzania and Africa's tallest mountain.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Saguaro cacti in Tucson are blooming more than usual, a phenomenon not seen since 2021. Experts say ...

Six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea wasn’t nearly as picturesque as it is today. It was barely even a sea; tectonic activity had raised a mountain range in the Strait of Gibraltar ...

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is the world's most valuable drug company. A chemist and veteran of the Union Army founded the company in 1876, and it later became the first to mass-produce insulin ...