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 ...
Panda

Cactus poaching, legal harvesting a growing threat to Chihuahuan Desert cacti

A new study shows that demand for wild cactus and rare plants many soon surpass supply in the Chihuahuan Desert of Mexico and the US. Gland, Switzerland – Demand for wild cactus and rare plants by ...
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 ...
ucdavis.edu

Cacti and Other Iconic Desert Plants Threatened by Solar Development

With their tough skins, pointy armor and legendary stamina, cacti are made to defend themselves from whatever nature throws at them. But large solar energy facilities are one threat that cacti weren’t ...