Survival secrets from a desert icon, revealing nature’s strategies for enduring and thriving in the harshest environments.

At the Phoenix Zoo and Desert Botanical Garden, complex operations to keep animals and plants safe from climate change may ...

Climate change and drought has driven California farmers to seek more resilient crops — like agave. And as the crop takes off ...

Come nightfall in spring and summer these migratory bats, primary pollinators for many agave species, throng flowering quiotes across Mexico, dipping in their pointy snouts and elongated tongues ...

Farmers in California are trying to plant crops that don't require a lot of water. Some are turning to growing agave as a ...

Agave, made from cooking the sap of a succulent, tastes sweeter than sugar and may be a good sweetener for vegans. Agave is a genus that is part of the Asparagaceae family. The succulent is native ...

Now some farmers are betting big on what they believe could be part of the solution: agave. The pointy succulents have a deep, rich history in Mexico, where they’re cultivated and distilled into ...

Guzmán-Delgado is a researcher with the recently formed UC Davis Agave Center. She is looking specifically at how different species of agave grow throughout California. The goal, she says ...

Uncorking wine and spirits adventures around the world. Acrónimo Spirits, a new venture based in Chihuahua, Mexico, is making ...