The University of Arizona women’s basketball team (11-13, 2-11 in Big 12) fell to the University of Cincinnati (9-16, 4-9 in Big 12) 77-61 on Tuesday, Feb. 10 in the Fifth Third Arena. Key players ...

The monsoon rains that greened up native desert plants also left invasive, destructive buffelgrass green and bristling with seed heads — setting it up for effective treatment with chemical sprays.

Researchers head to Kenya to unlock the weaknesses of invasive buffelgrass to combat it here in Texas. Left image: Texas A&M Agrilife Extention. Right image: The University of Texas at Austin.

Picture a sunset in which a “forest” of that Sonoran Desert icon the saguaro cactus is silhouetted against the skyline. Now picture that sunset minus the saguaros and you will have an idea why ...

TUCSON — In the Santa Catalina Mountains of the Coronado National Forest, buffelgrass has taken over, occupying thousands of acres of wildlands with what can quickly become fuel for wildfires. Land ...

Buffelgrass has become the region's number one natural enemy. And from Sahuarita to Oro Valley to Marana, municipalities are moving forward to eradicate the invasive grass, which has the potential to ...

In recent years, large swathes of the desert landscape in the parks around Tucson, Arizona have started to look a lot like grassland. And that’s a problem. Public lands in southern Arizona preserve ...

GREEN VALLEY, Ariz. (KGUN) — As Pima County leaders work to finalize a fire mitigation plan, residents of Green Valley are sounding the alarm about a dangerous and fast-spreading invasive species: ...

Buffelgrass was introduced to Arizona from East Africa and Southwestern Asia during the 1930s, Smith said. “It was brought here to provide two things: one is conservation of the soil, sort of ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Buffelgrass is an invasive plant species in southern Arizona that can make it easy for wildfires to start and spread in our region. According to Saguaro National Park, ...

At 7:15 a.m. on a Saturday in late October, the only people out and about are dog-walkers, mailmen and people on their morning drives to retail jobs. But also hard at work in a South Tucson wash is a ...