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MAPLE SYRUP

Tuck into fluffy pancakes topped with maple syrup while you can, because the sugar maple tree responsible for syrup is “stressed to the point of decline.”

Maple syrup production is intrinsically linked with the weather; sap is only able to flow when temperatures rise above freezing during the day, and then plummet below it once night falls. The shift in temperature is essential – the pressure forces the sap out of the tree. But climate change has rendered the once-dependable weather conditions unpredictable.

“Climate change definitely will, and already has, had an effect on the maple syrup industry,” Timothy Perkins, Ph.D., director of the Proctor Maple Research Center, told Maple Source.