A heat dome is trapping over 90 million Americans in extreme temperatures this week with the National Weather Service issuing heat alerts from Nebraska to Florida. Dangerous heat threatens to bake ...

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Corn sweat is real. Corn draws in water, then releases it into the air through evaporation. And all that moisture produced by more than 90 million acres of corn nationwide can make it more humid.

Considering that 13 states in the U.S. are responsible for nearly 30 percent of global corn crop, Verisk, Brookings Institution Scholarship and experts at AXIS Capital collaborated to quantify the ...

MAYFIELD, Ky. — Justin Ralph estimates he’s made about 200 trips delivering grain from the fields he farms with his brother and uncle this year. They’re accustomed to using their four semi-trucks to ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. With summer heat domes slamming down on parts of the U.S. and hurricane season ramping up, you’ve no doubt seen plenty of ...

Extreme heat warnings and heat advisories loom over the entire state of Missouri. Corn field communities will be hotter than everyone else. Dangerously hot conditions, with heat index values up to 110 ...

Recent flooding in the Midwest has brought attention to the complex agricultural problems associated with too much rain. Data from the past three decades suggest that excessive rainfall can affect ...