The saguaro cactus, (Carnegiea gigantea), is the iconic symbol of the American West. Even though these large, tree-like columnar cactus are slow growers, mature saguaros can grow to be 40 to 60 feet ...

The University of Arizona’s Data Diversity Lab gives researchers a new way to picture the future of life on Earth. By blending ecology, evolution and advanced data science, the lab creates tools aimed ...

Arizona’s iconic saguaro cactuses seem like immobile sentinels standing watch over the Sonoran desert landscape. But beneath their still, spiny exteriors, these towering cactuses are actually ...

Scientists have been monitoring these tall cacti since the 1960s—but recent counts suggest populations maybe decreasing. Credit: Saguaro National Park/Flickr One of the most iconic symbols of the ...

Fittingly enough, the future of the saguaro begins in the Old Pueblo. Researchers from the U.S. and Mexico gathered in Tucson earlier this month to launch the largest and most wide-ranging effort yet ...

For the first time in nearly a century, researchers have spotted a saguaro cactus in Arizona playing host to rare, patriotic visitors: a pair of bald eagle parents, nesting with their burgeoning brood ...

If you visit Arizona you can hardly fail to miss the impressive saguaro cacti that march up the foothills of the mountains near Tucson. So it's not totally surprising to find that a bunch of Arizona ...

Geologist Jeff Moore was visiting family in Tucson when he got the idea of adapting tools used to measure earthquakes for the study of saguaro cactuses. Studying the inner structure of a cactus ...