PHOENIX — If you’re trying to drop a few pounds, you may want to skip the celery and head straight to the tequila. Or at least the plant it’s made from. A new study said the natural sweeteners in the ...

A mystery plant which has been dormant for almost 60 years is threatening to burst through its greenhouse roof after growing 15 feet in the past couple of weeks. Experts were unable to identify the ...

Tequila’s biggest danger isn’t a shortage of agave. Or the overabundance of celebrity brands. It’s bats. Actually, it’s the lack of bats. The lesser long-nosed bat is the primary pollinator of blue ...

In addition, the word Tequila is an alcoholic drink that comes from the blue agave (cactus-like) plant in the area surrounding Tequila, Mexico, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) northwest of Guadalajara.

A central Queensland researcher is working with a team to study how to create a biofuel from the plant that's used to make tequila. Associate Professor Nanjappa Ashwath from CQ University says the ...

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila ... no more? Amid ballooning consumer demand for the spirit, the agave plant—the main ingredient in tequila—is facing a mass shortage through at least 2021, ...

Far north Queensland could soon be home to the world's largest crop of the plant used to make tequila, but rather than putting fire in bellies, it will be used to help fuel a green energy initiative.

On National Tequila Day, revelers throughout the United States will be getting into the spirit with a glass of their favorite spirit in hand. But other than its taste or where it’s produced, most of ...

For most garden plants, flowering is a sign of renewed life. That’s not the case with the succulent blue agave (Agave tequilana). Like other agaves, tequilana flowers only at the end of the plant’s ...