Lorayne Meltzer has lived along the Gulf of California for 30 years. As an ecologist and director of a binational field ...

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I tried and ranked cheeseburgers from six fast-food chains. The chains included McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Sonic Drive-In, Shake Shack, and Checkers. Sonic Drive-In and Checkers both ...

The city of Tucson, Arizona, sits on America’s southern border, surrounded by the cactus-strewn landscapes of the Sonoran Desert. Its present-day creativity draws on its Native American and ...

A silent crisis slithers through the sunbaked deserts and rugged mountains of the American Southwest—a crisis woven from ...

The conversation does get muddied by the fact that a new sort of chain has emerged that straddles the line between fast food and fast casual restaurants. After all, are McDonald's and Five Guys ...

I tried the biggest burgers at McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, In-N-Out, and Shake Shack. I thought Shake Shack's burger was a little overwhelming. Burger King's Triple Whopper impressed me with ...

In Cave Creek, the Sonoran ... around desert areas raise the odds of a fire stemming from a cigarette butt, a tracer round fired by a recreational shooter or a spark from a dragging chain.

A new study shows how the disappearance of an apex predator, the great white shark, from South Africa’s False Bay triggered changes throughout the food chain. With the loss of the top predator ...

Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world. The garden's brightly colored plants sharply contrast the Sonoran Desert's ...