A record-setting heat blast that swept across the Midwest this week has been made worse by the region's vast fields of cornstalks. Through a natural process commonly called "corn sweat," water ...

About 75 million people from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic coast are under heat alerts as abnormally high temperatures blast the eastern United States. The heat is sprawled over the region as ...

And they’d have a great view. The Sox and developer Related Midwest brought their flashy renderings of a potential new South Loop stadium partially to life this week, creating a baseball diamond ...

D.C. may hit a new record-high temperature on Wednesday. Extreme heat is gripping the Midwest before moving into the Northeast. Chicago is in the center of an excessive heat warning that stretches ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued extreme heat warnings and heat advisories for parts of the Midwest on Tuesday, as temperatures are expected to soar into the upper 90s across the region.

Benji previously worked as a wildlife researcher. Ah, yes, late August in the Midwest: a time for popsicles by the lake, a trip to the county fair, and, of course, extreme humidity made more ...

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — Fairview Heights police are investigating after a large fight shut down the Midwest WingFest early on Saturday night. According to organizers, Midwest WingFest in ...

A heat dome is bringing high temperatures to much of the Midwest this week and they’re being worsened by humidity that is, at least in part, caused by moisture being released from crops—or ...

As the Midwest faces a grueling heat wave, one plant is making the conditions worse: corn. Thousands of gallons of water, or “corn sweat,” are produced each summer day by corn crops.

“Corn sweat” is when corn plants release moisture into the air to stay cool, collectively providing the American Midwest a substantial surge in humidity every summer. It’s a process called ...