If you keep up with the climate headlines, you know that many of them are full of doom and gloom. With temperatures in the northern hemisphere reaching another set of record highs and a hurricane season predicted to be much worse than in the past, the indicators of human-made climate change are all around us, upending not just our comfort but also our economies and cultures.

It’s not all bad news, though. As global temperatures rise and ecosystems transform at an unprecedented rate, scientists and ecologists are documenting something extraordinary: The remarkable resilience of nature. From birds that migrate too late to feast to corals bleached by overheated seas and trees plagued by invasive fungi, many species are adjusting in real time—some with a little help from humans, others through the slow, powerful force of natural selection.

Pied flycatchers are black and white songbirds that migrate north from Africa to the Netherlands each spring to mate and raise their young after spending time in the warmer southern climates through the fall and winter. But climate change has disrupted their natural timing, which is typically determined by the amount of sunlight present as the spring days get longer.

As The Guardian notes, because spring is coming earlier to Europe thanks to climate change, the birds are arriving too late to take advantage of the oak moth caterpillar, the preferred food for the growing chicks.

To help support the pied flycatchers, Dutch ecologists decided to trap and move some of the birds north to southern Sweden, where spring comes later, allowing the chicks that hatched there to take advantage of the peak of their food supplies. A year later, those chicks returned to southern Sweden to raise their own broods, helping to bolster the population.

Relocation is considered a drastic intervention to help endangered animals survive the ongoing climate crisis, but in this case it has been a success, and conservationists believe that this kind of intervention should be a feasible future option as the globe continues to warm.

Human intervention isn't only happening in the skies; it's happening in the ocean, too. In Western Australia, on the Ningaloo Reef, researchers are breeding heat-tolerant corals by combining corals from two separate sections of the reef that are roughly 100km apart, according to ABC News in Australia: one from warmer waters and one from cooler waters.

The researchers had to overcome several challenges, including maintaining the proper temperature and circulation for both coral parents, transporting them across land and sea, and allowing them to breed in the dark of night without disturbing them. The “teenage” corals were then put through a stress test where researchers put them at temperatures to simulate a natural bleaching event, and the corals were able to survive at temperatures of 35.5 degrees C (95.9 degrees F).

With bleaching events becoming the norm (and no longer the exception) around the globe, these selective breeding techniques to create specialized coral that can survive higher ocean temperatures could help prevent ecological collapse in oceans in the long run.

Ironically, the study was funded by an Australian mining billionaire, Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, through his Minderoo Foundation. Forrest is the founder of Fortescue Metals Group, an iron ore mining company that is making a push to green the industry.

Wild ash trees are taking the non-human intervention path to survive climate change, according to scientists.

According to a story in The Guardian, scientists have discovered that ash trees in the UK are starting to develop resistance to a fungus, called Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, which is spreading rapidly across Europe.

According to the story, the fungus has already killed millions of trees in the UK alone, and is expected to kill as much as 85% of the non-resistant ash trees, which are older, costing the British economy nearly £15 billion. The fungus has been wreaking havoc and was discovered in 2012.

Scientists have discovered that some of the saplings have built up a new genetic resistance to the fungus, which could help revitalize the ash trees that have been (and will be) lost. With some additional human intervention (and help from genetic engineering), the ash trees might be able to survive the fungus, though scientists say it's too early to tell.

Scotland’s River Dee once teemed with salmon, with hundreds of breeding females returning to the river in the 1960s. Today, some spots along the river have recorded only one returning female, largely due to heat stress and altered water flows. According to The Guardian, a combination of human and natural interventions might save the population.

To rescue the flagging population, a 20‑year, £5 million initiative called “Save the Spring”, backed by local fishery boards, the Atlantic Salmon Trust, the River Dee Trust, the University of Stirling, and UHI Inverness are working together on a program to stop the die off.

It’s a two-pronged plan, including habitat restoration and a small relocation pilot for the threatened salmon. So far, the group has planted 150,000 trees (aiming for 1 million by 2035) to help cool the river by offering shade. Deadwood is being used to slow water flow and create salmon-friendly breeding spots. Smolts or juvenile salmon are being collected and raised in controlled tanks, then returned to upstream spawning grounds to help improve their chances of survival (and return to the river as a future breeding site).

Scientists are cautiously optimistic that the combined program seems to be working, according to The Guardian, as juvenile survival rates have improved thanks to the new trees, slowed flow, and managed rearing program.

While the news on climate change around the world is not good, these stories give a glimmer of hope for what might be possible when nature and humans work together. As we move deeper into an era defined by extreme weather, heat waves and mass die offs, the importance of scientific, strategic intervention, combined with deep ecological understanding and respect for the natural world, there may yet be hope for systems we’re trying to save.