No More Maple Syrup

Reduced snow cover in forests in the North East United States may doom the maple syrup industry and reduce the ability of those forests to help sequester CO2. 

The researchers explain how lack of adequate snowpack causes sugar maples to grow 40 percent slower than usual, and when the snowpack returns, they are unable to recover. 

One biochemist has described the study as a "big deal"..."This spells trouble for the trees — and for humans — as the trees not only give us syrup, but also eat up a chunk of carbon pollution."