Good rainfall has turned the desert in Pakistan green, but a new generation of locusts has robbed farmers of joy

Years of unscientific ‘greening’ combined with recent land-use changes and erratic monsoons have destroyed grasslands in the Thar desert, threatening pastoralists’ way of life. A new project aims to revive them.

A farmer is using clay pitchers to irrigate his orchard and crops, using 70% less water than conventional methods

A canal would ease the water crisis for people in this impoverished region, but political infighting and government apathy have prevented any progress

Labourers collecting salt from Achro Thar’s lakes in Pakistan’s Sindh province are paid low wages and live in miserable conditions

Receiving a good amount of rainfall after many years, the Thar desert is in full bloom in Pakistan’s Sindh province

Chinese backed coal excavation and power plants will displace thousands of people and deplete groundwater in a region ravaged by drought

Government investment in 750 expensive water treatment plants won’t solve drinking water problems for people in the drought prone Thar desert. Experts argue for the construction of canals and rain ponds instead

For over 20 years, Mising people have been victims of restrictive conservation policies in the same forest that is being opened up to industry and mining