Arizona's saguaro cacti, a symbol of the U.S. West ... "The older ones are at more risk of wilting and dying. And part of that is that they just have so much mass to support that they're the ...

They are scrambling to find ways to replace the dying cactus breed. PHOENIX - The heat and drought are taking a toll on Arizona's iconic Saguaro cactus. The symbol of the southwest may be in big ...

Arizona's iconic saguaro cacti are falling over and dying thanks to extreme heat in the state. The plants, although adapted to hot temperatures, rely on summer monsoon rains that haven't come.

He and his colleagues have been tracking an uptick in saguaro cactus mortality that began in 2020 — when the state was in the midst of a severe, yearslong megadrought — and has not let up.

A damaged saguaro cactus remains standing on August 3, 2023, in Mesa, Arizona. Dozens of saguaro cactuses have died since being relocated to make room for the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Arizona.

Likewise, at Saguaro National Park-East and West, biologists “are not seeing evidence that arms are falling off and saguaros are dying ... to how much heat that cactus can tolerate, and ...

But were they really dying at an unprecedented rate? "I didn't have any answer," she said. "... but we are working on that." She launched metro Phoenix's grassroots Saguaro Census. Volunteers use ...

The saguaro cactus towered over the hilltop outside Tucson like a massive hand rising out of the earth. Generations of hikers posed for pictures at the base of the hulking, treelike plant ...

The saguaro-haulers steer the saguaros into place, guided by a stripe of spray paint down the cactus’s side that dictates which way needs to face north. On the south-facing sides of a saguaro ...

Saguaro cactuses tower over Arizona's desert landscape, each year inching higher and higher for hundreds of years as they watch time pass. While they can grow to unique heights, one cactus holds ...

Pardon the Texanist for that brief digression. Because the saguaro is, in the eyes of some, such a looker, visual depictions of the Southwest and the West in general are often enhanced with these ...