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My new work kindly supported by the Pulitzer Center, on deserts forming at the headwaters of the Yellow River in the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau is out now in print in the Walrus Magazine. Swipe left to see more. Thank you to the wonderful team at Walrus for doing such a wonderful job with the story and layout. And also to @yancongphoto for your indispensable assistance on this excellent adventure. @pulitzercenter @walrusmag #desert #thirdpole #climatechange #pulitzercenter #china #qinghai https://www.instagram.com/p/B34Dux4gDl7/?igshid=bdttjeiaxjvn

Happy 100 Million Followers @natgeo This panoramic image - (Swipe Right to See Full Image) was one of my first pictures in the magazine in 2017 and opened up across a gate fold of four pages. It was part of a long term project on the environment and transitioning landscapes in Northern China. I remember being so happy and stoked to see the work in the very magazine I loved to spend a chunk of my childhood looking at! CAPTION: Ngoring Lake. Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve, Qinghai, China. In the 1990s, China’s Yellow River began to dry up, and in 1997 it failed to reach the sea for several months. In an effort to address the problem, government officials launched a scheme to protect the river’s source, a region about the size of Illinois called Sanjiangyuan (“Three River Source”) in northwest Qinghai province, which is also home to the sources of the Yangtze and Mekong rivers. The Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve was established in 2000. Since then, Ngoring Lake, the largest of the lakes in the Reserve, has seen its water levels rising and is now larger than its historical average. Local officials claim this is proof that the government’s environmental preservation efforts have been successful, but recent research by climate scientists suggests a more worrying explanation for rising water levels: not only is climate change thought to be responsible for increased rainfall and snowfall in the area, it has also caused, by some estimates, up to a fifth of the permafrost which covers 80% of the plateau to melt. #climatechange #globalwarming #thirdpole #qinghai https://www.instagram.com/p/BuFwX7vgC-S/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=q3gjxybx7nil

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Extensive mining is set to transform Tibet into an industrial landscape, with disastrous environmental and social impacts, argues Gabriel Laffite