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Climate & environment fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about climate & environment. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

1,358 published reviews in this topic

YouturnNov 22, 2021Climate & environment

Elephants are afraid of honeybees. And hence farmers in African countries are making honeybee fence instead of electric fences. This saves elephant lives. Pollination is also increased because of honeybees which in turn increases the yield.

Publisher’s rating: True

dpaNov 19, 2021Climate & environment

Twee foto's tonen Statue of Liberty met een lagere zeespiegel in 2020 dan in 1920.

Publisher’s rating: Op basis van foto's is onmogelijk een verandering in de zeespiegel na te gaan. Ze kunnen een vertekend beeld geven aan de hand van wanneer op de dag de foto werd genomen. In werkelijkheid steeg de zeespiegel ongeveer twintig centimeter de laatste honderd jaar.

TheJournal.ieNov 17, 2021Climate & environment

A photo shows a COP26 electric bus being towed by a diesel truck

Publisher’s rating: False. The photo is of a diesel bus being towed in Glasgow, but nothing to do with COP26

Vera FilesNov 15, 2021Climate & environment

Pasig River was cleaned under Duterte's time, while it stayed dirty under other administrations.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

RMIT ABC Fact CheckNov 10, 2021Climate & environment

"There are 400 private jets ferrying delegations to the COP26 conference. @POTUS [US President Joe Biden] brought five. It is estimated they will emit in 24 hours as much CO2 as Scotland emits in a year!"

Publisher’s rating: Nonsense

Vishvas NewsOct 30, 2021Climate & environment

ഗുജറാത്തിലെ ഗിർ വന്യജീവി സങ്കേതത്തിൽനിന്നുള്ളതാണ് യൂസർമാർ അവകാശപ്പെടുന്നത്.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

Vishvas NewsOct 30, 2021Climate & environment

మానవ నిర్మిత వాతావరణ మార్పుపై NASA ప్రకటన

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FactCheck.orgOct 28, 2021Climate & environment

Electric vehicles “do not expend any pollution into the air.”

Publisher’s rating: Not the Whole Story

Sächsische.deOct 28, 2021Climate & environment

Akkus von Windrädern werden regelmäßig manuell entladen, weil der Bedarf an Strom zu gering ist.

Publisher’s rating: Falsch, Windräder müssen nicht entladen werden. Sie werden höchstens abgeschaltet.

Vishvas NewsOct 28, 2021Climate & environment

ইনষ্টাগ্ৰামত ভাইৰেল হোৱা এখন ফটোত দাবী কৰা হৈছে যে “নাছাই স্বীকাৰ কৰিছে যে মানৱসৃষ্ট জলবায়ু পৰিৱৰ্তন (জলবায়ু পৰিৱৰ্তন) এটা প্ৰৱঞ্চনা!”`

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

RMIT ABC Fact CheckOct 27, 2021Climate & environment

Polar bear numbers have increased

Publisher’s rating: Doesn't check out

Vera FilesOct 23, 2021Climate & environment

Photo of trash-filled Manila Bay shows the condition of the body of water before Duterte's term

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

Vishvas NewsOct 14, 2021Climate & environment

NASA admits that man-made climate change is a hoax!

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

Deutsche Presse-AgenturOct 14, 2021Climate & environment

Der Winter in der Antarktis war dieses Jahr extrem kalt, deswegen ist die Erderwärmung eine Lüge.

Publisher’s rating: Teilweise falsch

Vera FilesOct 12, 2021Climate & environment

Speaking about wind and solar power plants, Noynoy Aquino said, "What if it's cloudy? What if it rains?"

Publisher’s rating: Need Context

Deutsche Presse-AgenturOct 8, 2021Climate & environment

Meteorologe Jörg Kachelmann stellt den Klimawandel in Frage

Publisher’s rating: Falsch

Pagella PoliticaOct 1, 2021Climate & environment

«Abbiamo 13 milioni di automobili euro 0 ed euro 1»

Publisher’s rating: Pinocchio andante

BBC Reality CheckSep 29, 2021Climate & environment

"The Tories inherited plans from Labour to make every new home zero carbon. They scrapped them and now we have a crisis in energy prices, emissions from homes have increased"

Publisher’s rating: The Conservatives did scrap this scheme. Residential emissions had actually been falling but emissions from heating went up in 2020.

Deutsche Presse-AgenturSep 24, 2021Climate & environment

Vulkane sind für das Abschmelzen des Eises in Arktis und Antarktis verantwortlich. Inzwischen nimmt das Eis wieder zu.

Publisher’s rating: Das Polareis nimmt weiterhin ab. Das liegt in erster Linie am Einfluss des Menschen auf das Klima. Die vulkanische Aktivität nimmt zu, weil das Eis schwindet.

BBC Reality CheckSep 23, 2021Climate & environment

"When I was a kid, we produced almost 80% of our electricity from coal... that percentage is now down to 2% or less"

Publisher’s rating: He's right about how much of the UK's electricity generation comes from coal.