EcoWatch: Warm and irregular weather in the heart of sugar maple country is destroying the flavor of maple syrup, and its cutting down on yields--two years ago, production dropped dramatically due to a warmer year, and this year, farmers are resorting to using vacuum tubing to suck sap out of the trees in order to access every last drop.
When we think of maple syrup, we usually picture farmers stomping out in the snowy woods, checking buckets that slowly fill from taps inserted into the trunks of sugar...