27 photos show how climate change has ravaged the Arctic in the past decade

• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'a annual Arctic Report Card, which describes how the Arctic has changed each year, came out this week.
• The report warns that global sea level rise is on track with one of climate scientists' worst-case predictions.
• Ice melt due to climate change contributes to sea-level rise, which leads to flooding in coastal areas.
• This year is expected to be the second or third warmest year on record, while average temperatures from the last decade are on track to be the highest ever recorded.
• In the last decade, an average of 252 billion tons of Antarctic ice melted per year. In Greenland, an average 280 billion tons of ice melted per year - a seven-fold increase from the 1990s.
• Combined, ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica contain more than 99% of the planet's fresh water.
• In 2019 we saw what The World Meteorological Organization called "unprecedented" wildfires, flooding, and food insecurity for humans and wildlife.
• While polar bears struggle to find prey across thinning ice, reindeer food is getting trapped under ice thanks to early snow and freezing rain.
• Here's how the last decade of global warming has ravaged the Arctic.
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