Rosie Crocker grew up in the Phoenix area surrounded by mostly concrete, as she remembers it. It wasn’t until she moved to ...

The Sonoran Desert is one of the largest deserts in North America. Credit: Unsplash/Jim Witkowski Many Americans might be surprised just how expansive and diverse the Sonoran Desert actually is. The ...

The same climate changes known to be reshaping mountain ecosystems in places like the Alps and Yosemite also are driving alarming new patterns in the Sonoran Desert near Palm Springs, according to the ...

The third indigenous tree of the Sonoran Desert and the last to show its spectacular springtime bloom is the desert ironwood tree, Olneya tesota. The multi-hues of purple and lavender flowers make for ...

Welcome to Sonoran Arcana, a column seeking to probe the margins of Arizona cuisine and define a more specific, novel cuisine that has emerged in America’s great Sonoran Desert: New Arizonan. Here, we ...

The Sonoran desert tortoise population is stable and not in need of protection under the federal Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday. The tortoises, native to ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) —When it comes to one of the state’s most beloved animals, It’s not predators prowling about or a lack of food that’s killing tortoises. It’s people. And most of the time, we don’t ...

The Saguaro National Park is found in the Sonoran Desert. This Park is home to the largest species of cacti. Find out more about this interesting desert and the scientists studying there at the ...

“Love at first bite” would be a stretch—everyone knows that the best part of a hot dog is somewhere in the middle, since the ends almost always include a disproportionate amount of bun to filling.

Although the extreme heat across the Sonoran Desert of northern Mexico and the southwestern part of the United States is about to return for another summer, the weeks leading up to summer in the ...