ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 7月23日 04時31分

@joshhaner photographed young cedar trees in a nursery in Lebanon. The cedar tree can be found all over Lebanon — on banners, tattoos, storefronts, souvenirs and political posters. It’s often a stylized cartoon, like the bright-green stencil on the country’s cheerful flag. Many Lebanese see in the tree a reflection of their land’s uniqueness and its ability to survive the storms of history. “It is a very strong tree, strong enough to be able to live in very hard conditions,” said Nizar Hani, the director of the Shouf Biosphere Reserve, south of Beirut. “It’s very unique, noble, different from any other kind of tree.” As temperatures rise, though, the cedars’ ecological comfort zone is moving up the mountains to higher altitudes, chasing the cold winters they need to reproduce. In the Barouk forest, part of the Shouf Biosphere, there isn’t much farther up to go. If the climate warms at the rates expected because of the continued rise of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, some scholars say that by 2100 cedars will be able to thrive only at the northern tip of the country, where the mountains are higher. “We are in a race,” Dr. Hani told our reporter @anne.barnard. “There is no time to lose.” Watch our Instagram Story to learn more about #climatechange and the cedars of Lebanon.

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