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A photographer from the country of Lebanon returned to the Wilson County city to plant a cedar sapling.
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 ...
BCHARRE, Lebanon — Majestic cedar trees towered over dozens of Lebanese Christians gathered outside a small mid-19th century chapel hidden in a mountain forest to celebrate the Feast of the ...
Two Lebanese cedar saplings, native to the Middle East, were brought across the world and planted in Tokyo’s Kinuta Park on Dec. 17 to celebrate 70 years of diplomatic relations between Japan ...
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.
Elsa Sattout, whose doctorate entailed a multidisciplinary study of Lebanon’s cedar forests, defended the country’s approach and noted the cedar is protected by law, but said more could be done.