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- Climate
Posted on: 2024-06-03
Farmers’ Protests Weaponized to Spread Climate Misinformation, Report Finds

Farmers’ protests in several European countries have been weaponized to spread false or misleading claims to discredit political action against climate change and fuel deep-seated distrust towards the European Union, according to a report on climate disinformation related to the protests.
- Climate
Posted on: 2024-05-22
European Fact-Checking Organisations Launch Climate Disinformation Database

European fact-checkers have joined forces to combat climate disinformation with the launch of Climate Facts Europe – a public database and alert system supported by the European Climate Foundation.

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- Climate
Posted on: 2024-06-28
Sea-level rise: to mitigate or adapt? Experts say we need to do both.

Roughly 900 million people lived in low-lying coastal cities and settlements in 2020; a figure that is projected to reach 1 billion by 2050. Is there anything we can do now to reduce sea-level rise and its impacts? Our past actions will already impact sea-levels for thousands of years. But not everything is set in stone. We possess the power to reduce sea-level rise and its impacts over the next century and beyond with our current actions. Some advocate to mitigate the causes, and others to adapt to the consequences. But what do experts say?
- Health
Posted on: 2024-06-24
How fears of parasites drive viral claims for detoxes and cleanses

Removing parasites from the body is a recurring theme in health misinformation on social media. These posts misleadingly suggest that…
- Climate
Posted on: 2024-05-14
How CO2 warms Earth through the greenhouse effect and why CO2 is not ‘saturated’ in Earth’s atmosphere

There is no doubt about it – climate science can be complex. But sometimes this complexity is mistaken for uncertainty.…