Denise Chow is a science and space reporter for NBC News.
LAS VEGAS — On a sun-parched stretch of West Charleston Boulevard, Norm Schilling pulled his truck over to the side of the road just to visit his favorite tree. Schilling, a local horticulturalist who runs a landscaping company and owns a garden shop called Mojave Bloom Nursery, saved this African sumac decades ago after an unusually frosty winter caused its branches to freeze and die off.
Kevin Hultine, director of research at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, studies the consequences of heat stress on the Sonoran Desert ecosystem. He and his colleagues have been tracking an uptick in saguaro cactus mortality that began in 2020 — when the state was in the midst of a severe, yearslong megadrought — and has not let up. “Summer of 2020 was our hottest on record until last year, and we saw a major die-off,” Hultine said.
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