Ice Flows Into Inner Mongolia As The Yellow River Thaws
ORDOS, CHINA – MARCH 22: (CHINA OUT) Soldiers load bombs onto a fighter plane, used to break up ice floating at Ordos section of the Yellow River, on March 22, 2011 in Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. As the temperature picked up in early March, 225 kilometers of the frozen section of the Yellow River in Ningxia partly thawed and started to flow downstream towards Inner Mongolia. Workers are busy breaking up it in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous so it will not block approaching ice runs and lead to flooding. (Photo by VCG/Getty Images)