Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been engulfed by fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops in recent weeks, fueling concerns of a nuclear catastrophe.
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Snopes→ Fighting Goes on Near Ukraine Nuclear Plant; IAEA on Site
Britain's Defense Ministry says shelling continued in the district where the Zaporizhzhia power plant sits.
Snopes→ UN Nuclear Agency Team Arrives at Ukraine Power Plant
A team from the U.N. nuclear agency has arrived at the site of Europe’s largest nuclear plant to inspect security conditions.
Snopes→ UN Agency to Inspect Ukraine Nuclear Plant in Urgent Mission
The stakes couldn't be higher for the International Atomic Energy Agency experts who will visit the plant in a country where the 1986 Chernobyl disaster spewed radiation throughout the region.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Russian Power Plant NOT Blown Up In Ukrainian Counterattack As Of August 26, 2022
Did Ukraine launch a counterattack against Russia by crossing its border and blowing up a Russian power plant, leaving the country in flames? No, that's not true: Although the Ukraine military has launched some cross-border missile attack
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show UFOs Surrounding A Nuclear Plant — It’s A Coal-Fired Power Plant, Flying Orbs Are Computer-Generated
Does a Facebook video show three UFOs surrounding a nuclear plant? No, that's not true: The footage shows a coal-fired power plant in West Virginia, and the white orbs allegedly flying in the sky above have been created by a special effec
Snopes→ 4 Misguided Plant Health Trends on Social Media
The internet is full of advice on just about everything, including plant care.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bubbling Water In Hudson River Is NOT ‘Boiling,’ NOT Near A Nuclear Power Plant
Was water in the Hudson River boiling? And was bubbling related to a nuclear power plant that was supposed to be nearby? No, neither claim is true: The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) told Lead Stories via em
Snopes→ US to Plant 1 Billion Trees As Climate Change Kills Forests
Destructive fires in recent years that burned too hot for forests to regrow naturally have far outpaced the government's capacity to plant new trees.
Logically→ Video of Pakistan’s Guddu Power Plant engulfed in a massive fire in July 2022.
Video of fire caused by a fuel tank explosion in Afghanistan in 2021 was falsely shared as the recent Guddu Power Plant fire incident in Pakistan.
Snopes→ Pig Organ Transplants Inch Closer with Testing in the Dead
New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs.
Health Feedback→ Abortifacient plants are dangerous, and ineffective as an abortion method
REVIEW On 24 June 2022 the U.S. Supreme Court of Justice overturned the 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling, putting an end to the constitutional protection of abortion rights and enabling each state to set its own laws regulating abortions. As more than 10 st
Snopes→ Supreme Court Limits EPA in Curbing Power Plant Emissions
In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
Climate Feedback→ Yes, plants need carbon dioxide. No, that doesn’t mean it’s harmless.
Carbon Dioxide is critical for plants. It’s a key part of photosynthesis, the process by which plants turn CO2, water and sunlight into the sugars they need to grow – and the oxygen life on Earth needs to survive. But narratives that the elevated l
Logically→ A video shows an explosion that occurred at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk, Ukraine, in 2022.
An old video from a 2014 explosion in Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine, has been falsely shared as a recent explosion in Severodonetsk, Ukraine.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Plant Oils Do NOT Provide Effective Natural Sun Protection AND Sunscreen Does NOT Cause Cancer
Do plants produce oils that provide effective natural sun protection and do sunscreens cause cancer? No, neither is true: "There is no evidence that they afford even close to adequate protection," board-certified dermatologist Julie K. Ka
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Young Girls Working at an Oyster Processing Plant’
On June 16 2022, an Imgur user shared a photograph of three young girls, purportedly child workers who labored shucking oysters; the same image was colorized and shared in May 2021 to Reddit’s r/TheWayWeWere: Coloured by me, 3 girls wh
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Food Processing Plant Fires, Death Of Cattle Are ‘Intentional’
Did nearly 100 food processing plants mysteriously explode in 2022? Did 10,000 cattle in Kansas die mysteriously too? No, neither of those claims are true: Lead Stories determined the food processing explosions claim was false -- because
Health Feedback→ No scientific evidence supports claims that plant-based food supplements reduce blood sugar to normal levels and cure type 2 diabetes
REVIEW One in ten Americans suffer from type 2 diabetes. If left unchecked, diabetes can have dire consequences, such as damage to organs, nerves and arteries, or amputation. Diabetes is also among the top ten causes of mortality in the U.S. in 2020
Logically→ Home Depot continues to sell plants treated with neonicotinoids.
The Home Depot stopped selling most live goods treated with neonics in 2019. Old pictures of their plant labels have been used to claim otherwise.
Truth or Fiction?→ Food Processing Plant Fires in 2022, Explained
A June 4 2022 tweet about the latest in a purported string of food processing plant fires (or “food factory” fires) built on other, similar narratives in order to go viral: The tweet addressed others who might be “not paying attention
Snopes→ Japan OKs Plan to Release Fukushima Nuclear Plant Wastewater
Japan’s nuclear regulator approved plans by the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant to release its treated radioactive wastewater into the sea next year.
Snopes→ Scientists Grow Plants in Lunar Dirt, Next Stop Moon
For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts.
Logically→ The Chinese government have tranplanted chicken organs in animals like cows for faster egg production.
A doctored picture of cows laying eggs is being used to claim that China is boosting egg production by transplanting chicken organs in cows.
Snopes→ New Effort Races to Rescue Civilians from Mariupol Plant
Some 2,000 Ukrainian fighters, by Russia’s most recent estimate, are holed up in a vast maze of tunnels and bunkers beneath Azovstal steelworks.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Farmers Are NOT Paid To Destroy Crops, And There’s NO Evidence Of Plan To Destroy Food Processing Plants
Do separate claims -- that farmers were paid to destroy crops and livestock, and that numerous incidents of food processing plants burning in recent months have been intentional and coordinated -- combine to show proof of a plan to disrup
FactCheck.org→ Unfounded Claims About Frequency and Causes of Food Plant Fires
Quick Take Data on the number fires at food-processing plants in 2022 “does not signal anything out of the ordinary,” according to the National Fire Protection Association. Despite no evidence of foul play, unfounded rumors from conservativ
Logically→ Fires at food processing plants in the U.S. have been deliberately planned due to food shortages.
There is no evidence that any food processing plant fires in the U.S. were planned or that these fires have resulted in a food shortage problem.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Recent Fires At US Food Processing Plants Do NOT Show Plot To Cause Food Shortage
Did American food processing facilities mysteriously and suspiciously begin to catch fire after President Joe Biden predicted that there could be real food shortages due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine? No, that's not true: Several inc
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, food-plant fires aren’t attempt to create food shortages
Fires at food processing plants are an “attempt to starve us.”
Snopes→ Are Fires at Food Processing Plants a ‘New Trend’?
The real trend here is an uptick in fear-mongering over food-supply shortages.
Snopes→ US Man Who Got 1st Pig Heart Transplant Dies After 2 Months
David Bennett, 57, died at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
PolitiFact→ Misleading images of Chernobyl, Zaporizhzhia plants undercut real reasons for concern
Some images illustrating Facebook posts about the takeovers of Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia show explosions, mushroom clouds, mortars, and dead soldiers. eThe takeovers are disturbing, but those photos are misleading.
Snopes→ Fire out at Key Ukraine Nuclear Plant, No Radiation Released
No radiation was released from a Russian attack at Europe's biggest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and firefighters have extinguished a blaze at the facility.
Snopes→ Europe’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant on Fire After Shelling
Plant spokesman Andriy Tuz told Ukrainian television that Russian shells were falling directly on the Zaporizhzhia plant.
Logically→ A video of Luhansk power plant being bombed in Eastern Ukraine actually shows an explosion in China, 2015.
The Luhansk power plant was damaged during two days of shelling. However, this video shows an explosion in China.
Health Feedback→ Stem cell transplantation isn’t a scalable therapeutic approach to cure HIV
REVIEW The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has infected around 80 million people worldwide since the beginning of the HIV pandemic in the early 1980s. HIV infection results in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), which has claimed the lives
Snopes→ Were ‘Cakewalks’ Dances Performed by Black Slaves on Plantations?
Several readers asked us if the word — which is often used to describe something that's easy to do — had racist connotations.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Canadian Government Did NOT Plant Dumpster Full Of Rocks To Provoke Violence At ‘Freedom Convoy’
Did the Canadian government leave a dumpster full of rocks in downtown Ottawa to provoke violence during the "Freedom Convoy" protests? No, that's not true: The owner of the company that owns the dumpster confirmed with Lead Stories that
Snopes→ COVID-19 Truck Blockade in Canada Shuts Down Ford Plant
The protest by people mostly in pickup trucks entered its third day at the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.