All plants have a self-cooling process called transpiration. It's essentially the plant version of sweating. When it's hot out, leaves release water through the pores in their leaves. That water ...

July and August is a common time of the year for extreme heat and humidity. One of the contributing factors is the mature corn crop releasing moisture into the atmosphere. One acre of mature corn can ...

This month Coca-Cola said it would launch a new soda sweetened with cane sugar rather than the high-fructose corn syrup the company regularly uses, and PepsiCo said it would consider doing something ...

In these hot & humid conditions we've been experiencing, you will probably hear more the term "corn sweat" during this time ...

The process -- known by the scientific term "evapotranspiration" -- is the natural process by which plants move water from ...

Corn sweat. Yes, the term for how the crop can drive up the humidity through a process called evapotranspiration is a thing.

A phenomenon called "corn sweat" could exacerbate the impacts of the extreme heat blanketing a large portion of the U.S., ...

With this added moisture in the atmosphere, it can make an already hot day feel even hotter when you factor in the humidity.

Corn is "sweating" just like us during this heat wave, releasing up to 4,000 gallons of moisture per acre each day. Farmers, ...

We sent WNDU First Alert Meteorologist Jack Van Meter in search of the answer. He gives us both sides of the “corn sweat” debate.

According to the Weather Channel, the moisture released by corn plants contributes to increased humidity, which can make hot ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources, or DNR, has confirmed the presence of invasive red swamp crayfish in Van Buren ...