A black carpet of the trees' burned needles crunches underfoot. ... The fires came within just 7.5 miles of Lebanon's densest cedar forest in the Tannourine Nature Reserve.

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.

A: It looks like a deodar cedar (Cedrus deodara) from a distance. Cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani) branches usually form level layers in a mature tree. The deodar doesn’t usually look as layered ...

A black carpet of the trees' burned needles crunches underfoot. ... The fires came within just 7.5 miles of Lebanon's densest cedar forest in the Tannourine Nature Reserve.

Since the late 1990s, infant cedar sawflies have been eating away at the forest in Tannourine, as well as several other natural reserves in northern Lebanon. "In 2017, 170 trees dried up completely ...

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 ...