Save the date for #ThisIsTucson's third annual market featuring 100 vendors, food trucks, live music and more on Feb. 22 in ...

Yareta, a plant found in the high-altitude Andes Mountains, can live for up to 3,000 years. Its dense, carpet-like clusters ...

Large wildfires in the desert were once rare. Now experts worry that invasive plants and a changing fire cycle are putting ...

New method of regulating plant hormones allows researchers to increase quality and yields of rice crops grown in saline soil.

New method of regulating plant hormones allows researchers to increase quality and yields of rice crops grown in saline soil.

What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening.

Case in point: the Ivanpah solar project. Maybe you’ve seen the unsightly, blindingly bright towers while traveling from L.A.

A law enforcement task force seized six guns and made 24 felony arrests during its most recent week of raids under San ...

In the wilds of South Africa’s Northern Cape, poaching ‘green diamonds’ has become an almost irresistible temptation ...

Desert Sands Unified adopts a land acknowledgment for board meetings; tributes honor Matt Monica, Al Mijares; and our weekly scholarship spotlight for graduating high school seniors.

HOHHOT — In the freezing winter, on the fringes of the Kubuqi Desert in North China's Inner ... than 153 hectares of dunes and sandpits, with plants including over 22,000 drought-resistant ...