TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Sonoran tortoise population has grown greatly since the early 80s due to captive breeding. With their exploding population and our climate warming, how can a population ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

Ravens are smart and quick to adapt, and with more resources from urban expansion in the desert their numbers have soared. This imbalance can have a negative impact on other species, especially to the ...

In northern Kenya, where the ground is arid, the sun is hot, and water is a daily grind, the people have created a life that has endured for centuries. Their territory extends into Uganda, South Sudan ...

A study led by University of Arizona researchers shows that decades of groundwater pumping by humans has depleted Tucson-area ...

News Channel 3 and the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation presented another Impact Grant to a local nonprofit working to improve lives and help those in need. A $23,000 charitable gift was awarded ...

Officials with the Bureau of Land Management are investigating the discovery of dozens of human remains found on the side of the highway in Searchlight, Nevada Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He ...

Guide Dogs of the Desert is one of just 13 schools in the nation certified to prepare dogs for the blind and visually impaired. The canine companions are provided to people across the country at no ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...