Essay: Extreme heat is threatening corn in South Texas — and the state’s food supply
By Jeff Goodell
In the 19th century, early white settlers considered the Rio Grande Valley, where the once-mighty Rio Grande defines the border between the United States and Mexico, to be a forest of thorns and cacti where tarantulas crawled into your boots and ocelots slinked by just beyond the campfire.
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