When nitrogen seeps into groundwater, it can contaminate drinking water and cause harmful algae blooms in lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and warm ocean ... in field-grown varieties of corn.

Fields in Iowa can be muggier than beaches ... from the Gulf of Mexico and sometimes even from the Pacific Ocean. In other words, corn does not act alone. But it can be that one more thing that ...

Barb Boustead remembers learning about corn sweat when she moved to Nebraska ... Administration and found herself plunked down in an ocean of corn. The term for the late-summer spike in humidity ...

But soon, that towering corn might become a miniature of its former self, replaced by stalks only half as tall as the green giants that have dominated fields for so long. Cameron Sorgenfrey holds ...