Centuries of farming, herding, shipbuilding, and firewood-collection have all but eliminated forests in the region.
Lebanon is situated on the eastern Mediterranean so the entire west of the country is a beach.
The mediterranean climate is subtropical. Eastern Europe has a so-called land climate: hot in summer, cold in winter. Northern Europe has a so-called subarctic climate, in the west tempered by the influence of the (warm) Gulf stream.
The Nile empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
Yes. Croatia is located on the Adriatic Sea, which is a part of the Mediterranean.
The so called 'fertile crescent'
The eastern cougar lived in North Carolina.A cougar's habitat is in the forests of North America.
Yes. Though not very common, there are whales in the eastern Mediterranean, so presumably there can sometimes be whale-sightings from the Israeli coast.
They were major steps in persuading the Persian Empire to stop trying to impose peace in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Asia is completely to the east of Europe, so any border will be the part of the eastern border. The Ural & Caucus Mountains form the eastern border as well as the Bosphorus Strait and part of the Mediterranean Sea and Caspian Sea.
Aardwolves are native to eastern and southern Africa. Boreal forests exist in northern Europe, Asia, and North America, so aardwolves do not live there. Aardwolves are related to hyenas, but they eat termites, not large prey.
The eastern Mediterranean lies between Europe to the north and Asia to the east. It is typically defined as the region encompassing countries such as Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and parts of Turkey, among others.
The Cyprus Island is located in the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea which Turkey has borders with. So, Cyprus is much closer to Turkey than it is to Greece.