It may seem like niche science, but Wightman believes maple has a wide-reaching potential to satisfy America’s insatiable sweet tooth and buoy local economies. What’s more, a sugar bush—the term for a ...

A tenth of a degree makes a difference when it comes to the taste and texture of his award-winning maple cream, just ask ...

Forget about buckets. In recent years, maple syrup has been made with reverse osmosis sap extractors and air injectors. This week, the University of Vermont's Proctor Maple Research Center in ...

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You can get the sugar out of a lot of trees, but there's something special about the sugar maple. Its trunk is highly efficient at storing and... Mar 18, 2021 — You can get the sugar out of a lot of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — It’s as much a Michigan tradition as playing euchre or using your hand as a map. We make maple syrup here, and this time of the year is typically the sweet spot for making the ...

Twenty miles southwest of Cornell’s Ithaca campus grows a forest of sweet trees. The tubing at their trunks carry sugary sap awaiting to be transformed into a crowd-pleasing breakfast staple: maple ...

This episode of Brainstorm covers environmental policy and culture Prof. Eli Suzukovich III’s “Maple Syrup and Climate Change” course, which combines lessons about indigenous philosophy, climate ...

In the spring of 2004, the Boston Globe and Associated Press created a sensation by reporting that global and regional warming are affecting maple syrup production and will eventually spell disaster ...

Once winter nights dip below freezing and the days warm up above freezing sap begins to flow in sugar maples marking the start of the syrup season. With climate change, daily temperatures are on the ...

Most of us, when we think about maple syrup, picture rosy-cheeked New Englanders dressed in buffalo plaid, tree trunks slung with galvanized buckets, and steam pouring from a rudimentary shack ...