Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TUCSON — In the Santa Catalina Mountains of the Coronado National Forest, buffelgrass has taken over, occupying thousands of acres ...

Picture a sunset in which a “forest” of that Sonoran Desert icon the saguaro cactus is silhouetted against the skyline. Now picture that sunset minus the saguaros and you will have an idea why ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents in Southern Arizona have sounded an alarm to raise awareness about an invasive grass taking over their area, KGUN ...

The spread of buffelgrass "rivals climate change and water scarcity as our region's most pressing environmental issue," according to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Buffelgrass, an invasive species ...

Buffelgrass is a highly invasive perennial found in arid regions around the globe. It is known to reduce the biodiversity of native ecosystems and to increase the frequency and intensity of wildfires.

Researchers head to Kenya to unlock the weaknesses of invasive buffelgrass to combat it here in Texas. Left image: Texas A&M Agrilife Extention. Right image: The University of Texas at Austin.

After a wet El Niño season, an invasive plant could fuel a dangerous wildfire season in Southern Arizona. Buffelgrass may ...

University of Arizona researchers are preparing their first concerted attack against buffelgrass, an invading species that threatens to forever change this part of the Sonoran Desert. The ...

Around 3 a.m. last Wednesday, scientist Ben Wilder watched dozens of saguaros near Pima Canyon explode into flames as he stood in the Catalina Foothills. He had seen flames from the Bighorn Fire ...

PRESENTATION TIME AND LOCATION:Thursday, August 5 in Portland, Ore. at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. at 9:50 a.m. in meeting room B117 of the Oregon Convention Center. ESA ...

Not long after the sun rose over the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona, a group of hikers set out on a mission in the Saguaro National Park. The group marched up a rocky hillside armed with metal ...

TUCSON — In the Santa Catalina Mountains of the Coronado National Forest, buffelgrass has taken over, occupying thousands of acres of wildlands with what can quickly become fuel for wildfires. Land ...