Virtually all of Utah is now in drought for the first time in nearly three years, and it stands out, nationally.

New Mexico and Arizona typically stand to benefit the most from the North American monsoon, getting anywhere between 10% to ...

As Britain's first heat wave of 2025 hits with temperatures climbing above 30°C, Yorkshire has joined the northwest in ...

A cholla cactus is seen in Saguaro National Park. Credit: John Burcham/SPUN Though invisible on the surface of the desert, researchers have found in recent decades that mycorrhizal fungi are a ...

With extreme weather becoming more common due to the climate crisis, the past few years have seen some of the most destructive weather events smash records across the world. And the stats make for ...

“The long-term survival of the Sonoran desert tortoise is severely threatened by ever-increasing losses of habitat due to development and other unmitigated uses, and by ever-increasing drought ...

The Sonoran Desert, known for its harsh, dry conditions, is showing signs of an unexpected green transformation that has scientists and experts deeply concerned. This rapid shift in vegetation ...

A new study finds that severely hot and dry weather dramatically increased saguaro mortality at two ends of the Sonoran Desert in 2020 and 2021 and that generally, the health of saguaros and other ...

The Saguaro National Park is found in the Sonoran Desert. This Park is home to the largest species of cacti. Find out more about this interesting desert and the scientists studying there at the ...

The city is also subsidizing water tanks and leak detectors for more than 5,000 households in Hermosillo. Climate change exacerbates extreme weather events like droughts, which are taking a toll in ...

The Brief The iconic Saguaro cactus is struggling as heat and drought intensify in Arizona. With record-setting summers in 2020, 2023 and 2024, scientists at the Desert Botanical Garden are ...

Even as water from the Colorado River has kept flowing to other ponds in La Quinta, the drought has meant less water seeping down to an aquifer that has declined for decades in much of the ...