Glaciers on the Hengduan mountain range in Xinjiang province. Photo by Yang Yong.
Geologist and glaciologist Yang Yong, by the glaciers that feed the Yangtze on the Qinghai Tibet plateau. Photo by Yang Yong.
Mining below the Kunlun glaciers in Xinjiang. Photo by Yang Yong.
The retreating Tian Shan No. 1 Glacier has split in two. The glacier is a major source of water for the provincial capital of Urumqi. Photo by Yang Yong.
A monitoring station at the Tian Shan No. 1 Glacier. Photo by Yang Yong.
The desert near the Tian Shan glaciers. Photo by Yang Yong.
Polluting industry at the headwaters of the Urumqi River in Xinjiang. Photo by Yang Yong.
A mining site. Photo by Yang Yong.
Retreating glaciers on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Yunnan province, on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau. Photo by Yang Yong.
