A change in the weather in the Corn Belt

Photo credit: inkknife_2000 (Don Graham) via Wikimedia.  CC BY-SA 2.0. News release by David Hosansky. UCAR – January 6, 2025. Study: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The sweeping land use changes and irrigation of the U.S. Corn Belt, along with the influence of the area’s shallow groundwater, have significantly altered precipitation patterns in that vital agricultural region, new research shows. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focuses on […]

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