But hell if I’m going to let anyone cast us hardy Great Plainsers out into the cold. Because it gets very cold in the Dakotas. VIDEO: 220 years of population shifts in one map ...

The sprawling Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains provides freshwater for roughly one-fifth of the wheat, corn, cattle and cotton in the United States. But key parts of the underwater aquifer are ...

Under the Great Plains, there's an aquifer powering the region's agriculture system. But it's running out of water, prompting farmers in middle America to consider more environmentally friendly crops.