Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A troubling first: Rising seas blamed for disappearance of rare cactus in Florida A rare tree cactus that grew for decades hidden ...

ROME (AP) — Armed with a search warrant, Italy’s police wildlife unit entered the house of a suspected cactus trafficker, finding over 1,000 rare cacti poached from Chile's Atacama Desert in a locked ...

A rare moonflower cactus, which bloomed at Cambridge University's botanic garden for what is believed to be the first time in the U.K., closed for good this morning. The glasshouse team at the garden ...

The Colorado hookless cactus has far more specimens in the wild, and a better drought survival record, than previously thought It took two years from proposal to acceptance. But apparently the ...

A Texas hiker who stumbles on a once-in-a-lifetime rare cactus in the desert is not just finding a botanical curiosity, but stepping into the middle of a thriving criminal market. In a region where ...

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 ...

Armed with a search warrant, Italy’s police wildlife unit entered the house of a suspected cactus trafficker, finding over 1,000 rare cacti poached from Chile's Atacama Desert in a locked room. This ...