NASA Studies Tree Rings to Show Eastern Mediterranean Drought Worst in 900 Years

A new NASA study finds that the recent drought that began in 1998 in the eastern Mediterranean Levant: Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey, is probably the worst drought of the past nine centuries.

Scientists reconstructed the Mediterranean’s drought history by studying tree rings as part of an effort to understand the region’s climate and what shifts water to or from the area. Thin rings indicate dry years while thick rings show years when water was plentiful.

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