If you're looking to broaden your fruit horizons beyond the quotidien, consider the many ways to eat prickly pears. Also known as cactus pear, this delectable desert fruit grows on shrub-size cactus ...

Edible cacti, especially Opuntia cladodes, show consistent short-term benefits for postprandial blood glucose and modest improvements in lipid biomarkers, largely driven by soluble fiber and bioactive ...

Phoenix in the summer: Hot and humid with evening storms and a chance of a haboob (major dust storms for those who haven’t heard). One thing is certain of Phoenix summers; it takes a little motivation ...

In the courtyard of the historic Gutiérrez Hubbell House in Albuquerque's verdant South Valley, the afternoon sun is beginning to soften. A band plays under a spreading cottonwood, and in the audience ...

Along the coast, this buck and doe are dining on prickly pear cactus, and further inland, a hungry javelina munches a thorny ...

Question: I recently bought my first home in Santa Rosa. The backyard has a prickly pear cactus that’s about 6 feet tall. Since it’s the first time I’ve owned one, can you share information about it ...

My wife and I visited her cousin, Penny, a few weeks ago and were amazed at an enormous cactus she had in landscape. It was an eastern prickly pear cactus measuring about 100 square feet, loaded with ...

Global warming, drought and plant disease pose a growing threat to agriculture in Italy’s arid south, but a startup founded by a former telecoms manager believes it has found a solution: Opuntia Ficus ...