Explore the rugged terrain and rare plants at one of Arizona's newest and barely visited national monuments, a serene cactus ...

Shutterstock Beware of These Spiny Creatures Rattlesnakes are deadly, yes, and Arizona’s deserts have a lot of them. Unless ...

Across the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's 98 acres, you'll find 230 animal species – including hummingbirds, coyotes and string rays – along with 1,200 local plant species. Next to the ...

Dozens of Arizona school districts are facing financial issues and the head of Arizona schools Tom Horne says finance isn't his job. More than 500 students showed up at ASU’s Tempe campus to ...

PHOENIX — A newly built segment of the southern Arizona border wall may bolster national security, but it will endanger one of the rarest desert fish in the U.S., according to the Center for ...

Climate change, drought, and fires — all caused or worsened by human activity — are rewriting the future of ancient Sonoran ...

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The 2014 on roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada ...

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles ...

Their powerful jaws can crush bones, and they hunt in packs, making them dangerous. Found in the desert’s cracks and crevices, the Black Widow’s venom can cause severe pain and even death if ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating site is shown near Primm, Nev., Aug. 13, 2014 ...