Could a large swath of the U.S. be underwater in 30 in a few decades? That's the claim in an Oct. 26 post on the Facebook page Being Libertarian, sharing a screenshot of a tweet that shows a majority ...

For years, a map of the US allegedly showing what will happen to the country if "we don't reverse climate change" has spread across social media. Snopes previously fact-checked this meme, which we ...

A new study has highlighted just how significantly the level of the Mediterranean Sea dropped during the Messinian Salinity Crisis -- a major geological event that transformed the Mediterranean into a ...

The most extreme heat event on the planet right now is happening not on land but at sea. A prolonged, record-smashing marine heat wave is scorching the Mediterranean, where water temperatures have hit ...

Russian oligarchs' superyachts were detected in different regions after the Ukraine war began. Heat maps show oligarchs' yachts have avoided America's west coast and the Mediterranean. Turkey, Dubai, ...

The caption accompanying a map shared to X on July 7, 2024, supposedly represented a dire warning from scientists about climate change: "Scientists say this map represents the US in 30 years if we don ...