If there is one leaf shape everyone knows, it’s the maple leaf. Botanically, it’s known as palmately lobed. Just the other ...

After a long, cold winter, spring has finally arrived in New England, and I am more than ready to hit the trails and breathe ...

These so-called “rainbow swamps” can be seen in wetland areas that are densely populated by bald cypress – or “swamp cypress” ...

South Carolina officially has a new state migratory bird. Its local habitats face threats from climate change and drought.

Trees, all trees, are wonderful things. But from my insectocentric viewpoint, the red maple, Acer rubrum, stands out as particularly admirable. And now is the season to best appreciate the ecological ...

PORTSMOUTH — Students at Robert J. Lister Academy are expected to plant two sugar maple trees as part of the city’s annual Arbor Day celebration. The event is scheduled for April 24 and will begin ...

Northern Michigan’s sugar maples stood tall and strong, sap flowing from taps into lines and collection buckets to be boiled down into the state’s sweetest crop. The maple syrup season was in full ...

FAIRFIELD, VT. — In faded photographs hung on the sugarhouse wall, a young couple collects sap from galvanized steel buckets while horses pull a sleigh through snow-covered woods — the storybook image ...

With the temperatures rising many of the maple trees in the area will soon be ready to be tapped for syrup. While syrup tapping has been a tradition at Chautauqua Lake Central School since 2023, ...

FACTORYVILLE, Pa. — Before it ever hits your pancakes, it starts right here at Keystone College’s Sugar Shack in Lackawanna County, where students turn tree sap into a super sweet maple syrup. The ...