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Khaled Taleb steps out of his vehicle high on a mountainside in northern Lebanon, and surveys the charred remains of the cedar forest he fought to save. A black carpet of the trees' burned needles ...
Anne Barnard, the New York Times Beirut bureau chief for the past six years, and Josh Haner, a Times photographer, went to Lebanon's cedar forests to see how the trees are today. JULY 18 ...
High up in Lebanon's mountains, the lifeless grey trunks of dead cedar trees stand stark in the deep green forest, witnesses of the climate change that has ravaged them. Often dubbed "Cedars of ...
But Lebanon’s once mighty cedar forests survive today only as pockets of scraggly trees on mountain sides. Now, there's a project to replant the ancient cedar forests. Lebanon’s government has ...