They once stood sentinel near the edge of the ocean. ... The Key Largo tree cactus is first plant of its kind to go extinct in the United States from sea-level rise, scientists say.

A massive stand of Key Largo tree cactus, the only one in existence in the U.S., was destroyed by rising ocean waters as ice sheets at the poles of the Earth continue to melt, according to a paper ...

With sea level rise bringing the Atlantic Ocean ever closer to the withering plants, ... Tree cactus is a suitable name for Pilosocereus millspaughii, known to reach towering heights, ...

No matter how hard you try, you'll probably kill your Christmas cactus. ... They grow in a series of coastal mountain ranges highly influenced by the proximity of the Atlantic Ocean.

Using geochemical isotope methods, Williams and his peers show that the conservation of this species, the pasacana, or Echinopsis atacamensis, depends on growth of individual cactus plants tied to ...

Sandra Pascoe Ortiz uses juice from the prickly pear cactus to make plastic. Plastic is everywhere — the average American consumes 70,000 pieces of plastic per year, according to the American ...

How did these remote ocean islands become so chock-ful of cacti? (1) Pelagic fish that are eaten by (2) seabirds that (3) deposit guano on bird islands, which (4) enter the island soil that is then (5 ...

Some cactus smugglers steal seeds from the wild but leave the plant in place. This is illegal, but the logic is that taking seeds in order to sell them or nourish them in a nursery is the only way ...

Rising seas threaten to inundate coastal cactus species, including others in the Florida Keys. Far from the ocean, fiercer wildfires fueled by invasive grasses are putting the giant saguaro , that ...