Human -induced climate change is impacting people and wildlife around the world.

From dying coral in Florida to melting glaciers in Switzerland, adaptation is key.

The record breaking marine heatwave of 2023 has devastated critically endangered staghorn and elkhorn corals off the coast of Florida in the US, according to new research.

Warming in the oceans is causing coral bleaching events worldwide, but researchers say these species are becoming functionally extinct in US waters.

Almost 70 miles west of Key West, it was discovered mortality rates reaching 98–100%.

Mortality rates were lower in the cooler temperatures of southeast Florida, at around 38%.

In his Miami laboratory, marine biologist Colin Foord feeds the local species of coral he's growing in his tanks.

A project in rural Kenya has been studying the possible effects of climate change on mental health.

A survey of nearly 15,000 women produced concerning signs, with results suggesting droughts and heat waves are linked with much higher levels of suicidal thoughts.

In Kaloleni, Kilifi County, Elizabeth Amina Kadenge briskly works on her three acre plot under the scorching mid-morning sun.

For decades, the 41-year-old mother of three has tilled this land and it has been her family's main source of food.

However, the harvests have become unpredictable in the recent years.

“It has been very stressful because farming is also my business. When I farm the way I know, some of my maize is for food, and some of it is for my business. But if it fails, I have no food and no business,” she explains.

To address the anxiety brought about by unreliable weather, Kadenge has switched out maize for cassava, which is less fickle.

She is not the only one adapting to survive.

In Europe a changing climate is also impacting food production.

In August France’s largest wildfire in decades burnt more than 160 square kilometers (62 square miles) in the country's southern wine region and claiming one life, local authorities said.

Officials estimate 80% of local vines were either destroyed or damaged — and even the grapes that survived may be too smoke-tainted to produce quality wine.

“The vineyards are burnt and the landscape is gone,” said Batiste Caval, a seventh-generation winemaker near Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse.

Caval, who owns 60 of the 400 hectares farmed by a local cooperative, said the fire may tip already struggling winemakers into crisis after years of drought and other harsh weather.

Switzerland's glaciers have faced “enormous” melting this year with a 3% drop in total volume — the fourth-largest annual drop on record — due to the effects of global warming, top Swiss glaciologists reported in October.

The Glamos monitoring network and the Swiss Academy of Sciences say the shrinkage this year means ice mass in Switzerland — home to the most glaciers in Europe — has declined by one-quarter over the last decade.

Matthias Huss, a glaciologist, called it an "extreme ice loss."

"Since the year of 2015, in 10 years, we have lost one quarter of the total ice volume. This is more than ever."

More than 1,000 small glaciers in Switzerland have already disappeared, the experts said.

The U.N. COP30 climate talks take place in Belem, Brazil from 10 November – 21 November 2025.