The climate is changing, its effects are deadly, and its getting worse every year.

Even as global carbon emissions were expected to decrease by about 7% this year due to coronavirus restrictions on normal activities, this has only briefly slowed but far from eliminated the historic and ever-increasing burden of human activity on the Earths climate , United Nations environmental researchers wrote in a December report.

This year has seen record-breaking heat, bushfires and storms. U.N. Secretary-General Antnio Guterres urged every country to declare a climate emergency.

Throughout President Donald Trumps time in office, his administration rolled back environmental protections around clean water , auto emissions and more. It remains to be seen what President-elect Joe Biden will do to curb the nations impact on the global climate, but he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have named climate change as a top priority , including a commitment to rejoin the Paris climate accord that Trump pulled the US out of .

Here are some of the ways climate change has wreaked havoc on Earths inhabitants this year.