Lebanon’s cedar trees threatened by climate change
Sep.06, 2012 in
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Guardian: King Solomon used them in the construction of the temple that would bear his name, the Phoenicians used them to build their merchant ships and the ancient Egyptians used their resin in the mummification process. 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 natural monuments in the world”, face a new threat in the form of climate change.
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