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This beautiful yet tragic ice exhibit is made from glacial melt water from the sources of the Yangtze, Yellow and Ganges Rivers.
Five sculptors carved, shaped and chipped away at the ice for two weeks to create these sculptures.
Chinese Li Heping and American Joseph Ellis were the two lead sculptors.
We brought the water to Beijing where it became the seed for 100 ice sculptures which will be displayed August 28 at The One Moon Art Gallery in Ditan Park in the Chinese capital.
More than one billion people in China and India rely on this water to survive.
Two years ago a United Nations study said that in 30 years 80 percent of the Himalayan glaciers would disappear if climate change continues at its current rate.
Since then scientists across the planet have found evidence that climate change is happening faster than ever.
It's up to us to tell our governments that they have to make a fair and effective climate change deal at the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen in December.
