Lebanese man returns to Lebanon to plant cedar tree by: WKRN Web Staff. Posted: Aug 9, 2018 / 12:33 PM CDT. Updated: Aug 9, 2018 / 12:33 PM CDT.

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 ...

Lebanon’s densest cedar forest, the Tannourine Cedars Forest Nature Reserve, has lost more than 7 percent of its trees to insect infestations unknown before 1997. They are directly tied to a ...

The fire that Taleb and his friends fought this summer marked the first time on record that wildfires have reached Lebanon's cedar trees. Starting in the low plains of Wadi Jhannam or the "Valley ...

The fires came within just 7.5 miles of Lebanon's densest cedar forest in the Tannourine Nature Reserve. "This was the worst fire season on record," Mitri says. "It's a national disaster." ...

But now Lebanon’s cedar trees (Cedrus libani), described in the Scriptures as “the glory of Lebanon” and by the 19th-century French Romantic poet Alphonse de Lamartine as “the most famous ...

A symbol of Lebanon's resilience through its long, turbulent history, the country's towering cedars now face increasing threats from wildfire and parasites, both fueled by global warming.