Chilling northern winds from Siberia freeze the local Songhua River. Ice from the river's surface is then harvested to construct the impressive Snow and Ice World. This year alone, 180,000 tons of ...

The ice block, dubbed the "first ice" of the year, was harvested amid the rhythmic chants of workers, signaling the start of Harbin's annual ice-cutting season on the Songhua River, which winds ...

First, the team locates the right place near the riverbank, where the ice is the right thickness. Then, they fix an iron rod ...

The swimmers had trained daily throughout the year for this moment. They first had to carve out a pool in the Songhua River, thawing the 10-centimeter (4-inch) thick ice that froze overnight.

The Chengdu Snow Village project, through a post on a Chinese social media app Wechat, said that it did not snow as much as ...

Tourists take selfies at the Harbin Ice and Snow World Park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 9, 2025.

The imperial mammoth weighed over 10 tonnes and the Songhua River Mammoth of northern China weighed up to 15 tonnes. The extinct dwarf mammoth species, Mammuthus creticus, was only around 1m tall ...