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Glacier National Park's ice fortress is crumbling. The giant trees of Sequoia National Park are ablaze. And even the tenacious cacti of Saguaro National Park are struggling to endure a decades-long drought. Since their creation, national parks have embodied the pioneering spirit of America in their vast expanses and breathtaking…
There’s a four-armed saguaro living on the western edge of Tucson that has one broken arm, one newborn arm, one thick older arm pointing to the Arizona sky and one slender younger arm pointing towards the Sonoran Desert soil.
The impacts of drought and climate change could be showing themselves in Tucson's Rincon Mountains, where researchers found shockingly dry conditions during a survey of perennial springs last year.
For Star subscribers: Human-caused climate change could have contributed to the Aug. 22 saguaro blowdown, a University of Arizona scientist says, but more data is needed.
For Star subscribers: The number of lost or damaged saguaros counted so far, after August windstorm, is up to four times higher than earlier estimate.