Wander into a desert for the first time and you may not be too impressed. Most deserts are dry, hot, drab landscapes full of prickly plants. But spend some time there, especially in the early morning ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 19, 2018 -- When Konrad Rykaczewski moved to Arizona's Sonora Desert region six years ago he took a water bottle and sprayed the plants in his front yard, not to water them, ...

Cactus and other growth was even thicker than it had looked ... I wouldn’t have believed there were so many cattle in the whole of Sonora. A hundred sets of pounding hoofs filled the air with a cloud ...

MEXICO CITY -- Authorities in northern Mexico on Wednesday found 32 kilograms of fentanyl hidden inside boxes of sliced cactus, a quintessential Mexican food staple known as nopales. Mexican law ...

SONORA, Mexico — Mexican authorities made a major drug bust of 32-kilograms of fentanyl hidden inside boxes of sliced cactus near the United States border. The packages of both pills and powder were ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— Following multiple petitions and lawsuits, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today again protected the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl as threatened under the Endangered Species Act after ...