That sweetness in the air is not just the arrival of springtime—maple syrup season has arrived in Quebec. Taps drilled into the maple trees collect oozing sap in buckets like these. The sap is then heated to evaporate excess water, leaving the concentrated sugary syrup—yum. And Canada takes its maple syrup very seriously. Producing about 70 percent of the world’s maple syrup, Quebec even has its own ‘maple syrup cartel,’ which works to keep prices stable and maintains the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve. Now, that’s sticky business.
Sweet! It’s maple syrup season
Today in History
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Walking among the giants
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Venice s grand regatta
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Satellite image of sand and seaweed in the Bahamas
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Going with the floe
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GOAL!
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Ahh-tumn
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The Sky Over Nine Columns in Venice, Italy
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Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia
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‘Stepping’ into Black History Month
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Hemingway’s Keys
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Field of Light at Sensorio by Bruce Munro
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Wedded Rocks, Japan
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Where the glow of the holidays lingers
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Sutherland Falls in Fiordland National Park
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Tolkien Reading Day
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The Vestibule at Diocletian s Palace, Split, Croatia
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A tree amid the Tetons
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A legend and a legendary home
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Life carries on, rising from a ship s skeleton
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Protecting wildlife today and tomorrow
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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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Make way for robots
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Cecil Brewer Staircase, London
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Great Backyard Bird Count
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International Surfing Day
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A gorge-ous mill in the Causses
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Reflecting on Black History Month
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Travel Sunday: San Francisco
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Eastern grey kangaroos in Australia’s Kosciuszko National Park
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World Theater Day