Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It's becoming clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years.

We call the result global warming, but it is causing a set of changes to the Earth's climate, or long-term weather patterns, that varies from place to place. As the Earth spins each day, the new heat swirls with it, picking up moisture over the oceans, rising here, settling there. It's changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely upon.

Natural Gas Mining seems like an OK idea right? A move in the right direction when coal and oil sources are fast being depleted? Wrong!

Innocent people living in the vicinity of these mines are unknowingly having their water polluted with hundreds of chemicals and as a result suffer from a range of debilitating illnesses. Many families are finding out this information too little too late and what is worse the energy companies deny, deny, deny! Read more - there are proposed sites for Natural Gas Mining appearing everywhere!

The annual Canadian seal hunt continues despite the decades of world outrage and protest.

This barbaric commercial hunt which takes place this month, is the largest slaughter of marine mammals on earth and sadly targets infant seals, all between 2 and 12 weeks old. You can help by supporting HSI, who are on the ground in Canada, and their work in saving baby seals from slaughter. Their work is heart-breaking but absolutely crucial.

Thankfully HSI continue to document this atrocious cruelty to expose it to the world, and are thus helping to end the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent baby seals.

Do you agree with majestic Moon Bears suffering years on horrific of bile farms for patients using TCM to cure impotency, among other things?

There are many non profit organisations working tirelessly to raise awareness and funds. This means, they are working to get your attention and your money, for causes they believe in and want you to stand up and take action for; save the waves, the beaches, rainforests, whales, the dolphins, polar bears, seals, hell, even caged chickens and street dogs.

How can we choose which cause/s to support? More importantly, what will happen to our planet if we don't support them, and choose to just shun them altogether?

The name suggests this coastal organisation only catch and rehabilitate injured seabirds and shore birds, but the fact is they are active in all coastal wildlife rescues including saving turtles, dolphins and whales!

They also teach best practice behaviours of waste management to reduce the human impact on coastal environments. Read here about their latest marine rescues...

Palm oil is used in many of the products we love but comes at a deadly cost to the magnificent creature otherwise known as the ‘red ape’.

The planet’s remaining orangutans desperately need our help - now more than ever!

Time is running out fast for these complex and highly intelligent creatures. Populations have sadly shown marked decline in recent years as a direct result of the logging of the forests and palm oil plantations. With only one out of six orphans lucky enough to be rescued, there are notably nearly 1000 orphaned orangutans living in cages and rehabilitation and rescue centres across Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea, whilst illegal logging, drought and fires continue to destroy their habitat at an alarming rate.