This rare Texas cactus blooms for just one night each year. Here's when to catch it

Here's when the night-blooming cereus blooms in Texas, plus why the rare cactus only flowers for a few overnight hours ...

This Arizona hiker has a fork in his first-aid kit, and it has nothing to do with eating

Cactus-related injuries are common in the Southwest. Here's how to protect yourself.
The Atlantic

The Saguaro Cactus Was Never Meant to Burn

The cacti arrive in buckets and cardboard boxes, in truck beds and plastic cups. Some are prickly green knobs smaller than a fist; others are saguaros a few feet tall—miniature versions of the ...
Birds & Blooms on MSN

Discover the desert birds of the Southwest

You'll be amazed by the ways desert birds survive and thrive in dry country. Learn about the bird species that live in ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

The Mojave Cactus Bloom Tour

Soon I’ll trek into the Mojave Desert, once again chasing cactus colors: strawberry hedgehog cactus on spiky gray columns, pale yellow pencil cholla flowers at sunset. I’ll return in May to see ...
PBS

These cacti are status symbols on social media. In the desert, they're endangered

A group of cacti species native to a remote Chilean desert has been poached to near extinction, thanks in part to social media crazes continents away. According to a new report from the International ...