it's now a sovereign nation. National borders and political definitions are particularly contentious in this part of Asia.

Asia is a very large continent so its climate can be very different in one part compared with another. Asia reaches as far south as just below the Equator, where the climate is tropical ...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 9 December – Even as dramatic water-related disasters such as floods and storms intensified in some parts of the world, more than three-quarters of Earth’s land became ...