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A new carbon-credit project in southern Africa wants to embrace companies’ desire for climate neutrality while distancing itself from problems that have besieged the market in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 24, 2025

Thousands of structures have been damaged in the fires that have besieged Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 10, 2025

"The security forces have besieged the scene," Farah Ali, a shopkeeper in Kismayu, told Reuters.

From Reuters Oct. 23, 2022

In peacetime new threats have besieged Faydah, including cement factories and a farmer who raises cows nearly on top of a canal that predates the Roman aqueducts by four centuries.

From New York Times Apr. 20, 2022

They advanced towards Rome through the Tuscan Apennines, and are said to have besieged Florence, though there is no hint of this in Orosius.

From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.