Herder Tencho and her younger sister Tsenang Tseten in Maduo
County. The entire region around the Yangtze river source and
its community are under heavy threat from global warming, as
temperatures rise and the permafrost melts. This documentation
shows the impacts of global warming - glacier retreat and
melting permafrost - on the land and local community at the
Yangtze and Yellow rivers sources. The glacial lakes feeding
into this river have been subject to outburst floods (GLOF)
affecting the immediate landscape and covering it in black
glacial deposits and destroying grassland so it can no longer be
farmed on. As lakes burst, melt and recede, local people lose
their main water source. Infrastructure has been impacted by
warming permafrost, cracks are appearing in houses and some are
starting to sink and become unstable. A number of affected
people have had to resort to temporary accommodation supplied by
social welfare as they lack funds to repair the buildings. © ©
Greenpeace / Du Jiang