plains

Many major coastal cities, including New York, Jakarta and Manila, are built on low-lying plains and face similar threats.

In winter, high air pollution from smog, temperature inversions and crop burning across the Indo-Gangetic plains produces light-scattering aerosols, which reduce sunshine hours.

During the Ice Age, sea levels dropped more than 100 meters, revealing vast coastal plains that are now underwater.

Russia controls almost 80 percent of the Donetsk region and has been inching towards the city for months, hoping to take it over and sweep through Ukraine's vast plains.

Texas lawmakers this month passed new laws barring summer camps from having cabins in flood plains.