In photos: The arid paradise that is Jaisalmer’s Desert National Park

Down To Earth’s photographer Vikas Choudhary travels through the protected area on the Indo-Pak border to bring these pictures

Community-managed pond offers sustainable solutions to arid Barmer village

Rajasthan is prone to water insecurity during heat waves and heavy rainfall, where ponds and lakes dry up and groundwater gets over-exploited

Textile units in Rajasthan’s Bhituja Industrial Area continue to pollute groundwater, Luni river: NGT panel

The area’s common effluent treatment plant was unfit to treat the effluents from the bleaching units

MGNREGA graft: Social audit finds irregularities worth Rs 54 lakh in Rajasthan

Corruption was unearthed in 2022 after the workers from Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan in Barmer reported the issue to the Rajasthan government

Water turns the tide

A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and flood in 2006

Built to last

A Rajasthan village has cylindrical houses that help people cope with extreme weather events

Dying for ration: Biometric glitches in Rajasthan villages keep the poor hungry

Valid ration card holders turned away from PDS shops as fingerprints don't match in records

As Jaisalmer villagers fight for sacred grove, a larger question looms

Allocation of village land for the development of solar and wind parks at the cost of pasture land is detrimental for villages

A look at floods in Rajasthan's Barmer district

Rajasthan flash floods can drought-proof state

COVID-19 outbreak: Rajasthan cumin farmers face tough time finding buyers

Rajasthan's cumin farmers have faced a series of problems

Dying for ration: These Barmer widows and orphans are being turned away from PDS shops

Settlement has lost most of its men to liquor abuse; Women work as waste pickers

Should villages in Desert National Park be relocated?

Floods cause havoc in drought-prone Barmer, Rajasthan

Sweet beris of Thar

Residents dig shallow wells to tap sweet water reserves

Rajasthan HC comes down hard on polluters in Barmer district

Barmer farmers protest Jindal power project

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