Revealed: the methane mega-leaks from UN climate summit host Turkey
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In two or three nights a week, the smell is installed. Village dwellers from the rural outskirts of Istanbul do not know what it is, but they have been affected by it for years: a smell so ugly that they have to sleep with the windows closed even in hot summer nights. I know and the source: the huge municipal garbage pit Silivri, a few kilometers away, which erupts suffocating gases as food and other organic waste rots, writes The Guardian.
The Guardian, a UK-based newspaper, reported, based on satellite data, that some landfills in Turkey are releasing high amounts of methane into the atmosphere, and that the landfill in Silivri district of Istanbul is one of the largest sources of methane detected in Turkey according to satellite measurements. The report states that researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) used Carbon Mapper satellite data to examine 10 lan…
Weeks before Turkey hosts COP31, satellite data revealed that 8.4 tons of methane per hour were being released from the waste facility in Silivri-Seymen. This measurement exceeded the total emissions of the 25 largest waste sites in the world, as identified by UCLA in 2025.
Revealed: the methane mega-leaks from UN climate summit host Turkey
Exclusive: Cop31 leader calling for global curbs on climate-heating gas has landfills producing some of world’s worst plumes Two or three nights each week, the smell descends. Residents of villages on the rural outskirts of Istanbul don’t know what the smell is, but they have been plagued by it for years: a smell so bad…
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