A woman and her two children draw water from a well in the Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert. | Credit: Royalty-free via Getty Images India's Thar Desert has become 38% greener ...

Mishra and his team found that the desert became - on average - 38% greener during this time, with more vegetation visible in satellite images. The findings from the study indicate the Thar Desert ...

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.