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Climate Change Could Mean Less Maple Syrup For Your Pancakes

As the climate gets warmer, sugar maple trees will have a harder time producing enough sap to meet demand. Luckily, scientists and maple syrup-makers are on the case.
New technologies that replace the traditional bucket and tap method of getting sap from sugar maples may help combat climate change's effect on the trees.

Maple syrup might be ubiquitous in pantries and pancake houses now, but new research suggests that might not always be the case. Climate change could eventually render the sticky stuff extinct.

A published last month in the journal examined assessed how environmental conditions impacted the growth of more than 1,000 sugar maple trees at four forest sites in Michigan between 1994 and 2013. The findings were sobering: Climate change has

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