1. Adapting to Climate Change

Adapting to Climate Change Stories

A view of a crowded room in the Nature Hub at Climate Week 2025

Nature, resilience, finance: Three words that defined Climate Week

WWF's Marcene Mitchell is encouraged by the innovation, determination, and collaboration of Climate Week. Headwinds remain strong, and the work ahead is enormous. But if Climate Week taught us anything, it’s that momentum builds when we act together—and that’s what will carry us forward.

  • Modeling Resilience

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2017
    More than 4 million people call Nepal’s Gandaki River Basin home.
    Gandaki River Basin, Nepal

  • How climate change relates to oceans

    The interaction between climate and oceans is altering, and the exchange is intensifying. As the climate responds to decades of increasing carbon emissions, the store of energy and heat from the atmosphere builds up in the ocean. If we reach a tipping point, we will likely see more extreme weather events, changing ocean currents, rising sea levels and temperatures, and melting of sea ice and ice sheets.

    sunset over ocean

  • Polar bear population decline a wake up call for climate change action

    Forty percent. That’s the stunning population loss for polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea. The news comes from a new study linking the dramatic decline in this polar bear subpopulation in northeast Alaska and Canada to a loss of sea ice due to climate change.

    polar bear Beaufort Sea

  • Our planet is warming. Here’s what’s at stake if we don’t act now.

    The world is already 1° C hotter than it was between 1850 and 1900. There’s no question that limiting warming to 1.5° F will be difficult, but we have the technology needed to succeed.

    Earth illustration