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

Cedar trees stand in the Cedars of God nature reserve in Bisharre, Lebanon. The reserve contains some of Lebanon's oldest cedar trees. Sam Tarling for NPR hide caption ...

Barouk Cedar Forest, Lebanon — Walking among the cedars on a mountain slope in Lebanon feels like visiting the territory of primeval beings.Some of the oldest trees have been here for more than ...

A Northwest Tree Specialists worker downs one of the limbs from Sherwood's Cedar of Lebanon. The tree has been around since the late 19th Century. (Eder Campuzano/The Oregonian) If you wore ...

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.