On the corner of Broadway and South 9th Street in downtown Tacoma, rare green and pink cacti stretch for sunlight through the tall windows of a new plant and home-goods shop that opened in late July.

Thursday’s edition of the Federal Register contains new rules from the Federal Communications Commission for 911 service providers, revisions to regulations that protect whistleblowers from the Office ...

Michael Eason sat at his desk scrolling through cactus listings on eBay. Eason — a botanist in Alpine, Texas — was looking for something called the Ariocarpus fissuratus. Squat, furrowed and fleeced ...

Over decades, the Poots have transformed a passion for cacti into a thriving family business. Though Poot’s Cactus Nursery approaches its 30th anniversary, Bill Poot’s passion for cacti began 49 years ...

Jessica Rubenacker collects plants. Lots of plants. In this episode, we learn about how Jessica’s passion for plant collecting developed. Currently, there are more than 365 specimens in her collection ...

As out-of-control heat cooks our planet, shattering temperature records for the last 13 consecutive months, it melts polar ice and raises sea levels. Most people are familiar with how this works, but ...

Millions of saguaro cactuses grow in the Sonoran Desert, yet only an estimated one in 200,000 exhibits the spectacular crown of the crested saguaro. Its rare beauty spawned the needle-in-a-haystack ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Two rare cactus plants found at a western Colorado construction site have disappeared, and authorities aren’t sure what happened. The Colorado hookless cactus plants were ...

A rare tree cactus that grew for decades hidden by a tangle of mangrove trees on Florida's Key Largo has lost its battle with rising sea levels and other pressures. It's now considered locally extinct ...