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A NASA study has found a drought that affected the Middle East over the past decade was perhaps the worst in the region's history for nearly a millennium. NASA scientists looked at a 14-year-period between 1998 and 2012 in affected countries like Turkey, Syria and Jordan. Kevin Anchukaitis is a Paleoclimatologist and the report's author. How does he know it was the region's worst drought in 900 years?

(Picture: A man walks on the dried, cracked landscape of Hanna Lake October 18, 2001 near Quetta, Pakistan. Credit: Getty Images)