Harbin, China — Liu Yantao and six co-workers start toiling on a frozen river in northeast China before dawn, using hand tools and machines to carve large ice blocks for an annual winter sculpture ...

Tourists play on the frozen surface of the Songhua River in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Jan. 11, 2026. The surface of the Harbin section of Songhua River, now solidly frozen, ...

Aerial photo taken on Dec. 12, 2018 shows workers collecting ice from the Songhua River in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. Ice cubes collected from the frozen Songhua River ...

If you love all things icy and artistic, you may want to check out these pictures of the Songhua River Ice and Snow Carnival in Harbin, China, from Dec. 29, 2022. While the festival isn't set to have ...

Viral photographs shared in early 2023 showed authentic ice formations in the shape of flowers on Songhua River in China. In January 2023, a collection of stunning images was shared on Facebook with a ...

HARBIN, China — Even as the mercury dropped well below freezing, enthusiasm soared among about a dozen hardy swimmers during a daily ritual in northeast China’s “ice city” of Harbin. The swimmers ...

HEILONGJIANG, Northeast China — At 4 o’clock in the morning, with the temperature hovering around minus 27 degrees Celsius, the Songhua River flows quietly under a thick layer of ice. Suddenly, a beam ...

China will invest more than $3 billion over the next five years to clean up the Songhua River, a key source of drinking water for tens of millions of people that was polluted in November by a toxic ...

"The water quality in the Songhua and Heilong rivers is steady and no pollution has occurred," read a statement from the SEPA. The thaw period had finished, but the benzene, nitrobenzene and aniline ...

The benzene-related pollutants in northeast China's Songhua and Heilong rivers remain at a safe level during the spring thaw period, China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) said ...