Climate change could put maple syrup making at risk if extreme weather and temperature changes harm the trees that produce ...

It’s peak maple sugar season and there’s no place better to get into the thick of it than New England. Maple trees are tapped across the region, from Rhode Island to the northern points of Maine.

But, with longer days and rising temperatures, sugar maple trees are beginning to release the clear sap that is boiled down into syrup. There are an estimated 500 commercial maple syrup producers ...

Sugar maples and red maples are the types of trees that produce most of Vermont's maple syrup. Not every maple tree produces the right sap for syrup, so you can’t just tap any and wait for the ...

The sight of a steady drip of sap brought elation to Paula Babel as she lifted a metal bucket hanging off a spile in a sugar maple tree that she calls the “queen of trees.” She poured the ...