The Thar Desert in north-western India is a unique and the only habitat of its type in the Indian subcontinent. ... above mean sea level (Govt. of India, 1994). Kar (1989) classified the landforms in ...

Known for its rich culture, natural beauty, and peace, Thar is a fertile desert and the livelihood of Thari people depends on rainfall agriculture. Farmers come back out as rain transforms the desert.

In the Thar Desert it is known to parasitize many trees including Tamarisk, a notorious invasive plant here in the Coachella Valley. Despite my being 12,000 miles from home, the parasite looked ...

Among these, the Thar Desert, an arid zone of approximately 200,000 square kilometers across northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan, holds the highest population density of any desert worldwide.

Because of these changes, the desert now has more than 16 million residents—more than any other desert in the world. However, higher temperatures can still put the residents of the Thar Desert ...

Many deserts face worsening droughts, but India's Thar Desert has become 38% greener in the past 20 years due to increased rainfall and expanding agriculture in the region, according to a new study.

For three years, the Thar Desert in south-east Pakistan has been suffering from drought-like conditions. But a new solar-powered project to treat underground saline water is offering a ray of hope ...

The Thar Desert, home to 682 species of flora and 1,195 species of fauna, has been found to harbour remarkable biodiversity. A recent study by IIT-Jodhpur used crowdsourced bird data from eBird to ...

In Sindh, Thar Desert has been transformed into green field with the plantation of one million trees. An official of Sindh Engro Coal Mining Comapny in Thar Coal Block II told Radio Pakistan Hyderabad ...

Thar Desert wall spiders are small, only reaching about a tenth of an inch in length, researchers said. They have dark brown bodies with eight eyes and eight legs.

In the study, "Greening of the Thar Desert driven by climate change and human interventions, published in Cell Reports Sustainability," researchers conducted an observational analysis using remote ...