{"id":61853,"date":"2024-02-12T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/12\/delhi-india-rubbish-dumps-sky-high-methane-emissions"},"modified":"2024-02-12T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:00:13","slug":"its-impossible-to-breathe-delhis-rubbish-dumps-drive-sky-high-methane-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61853","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s impossible to breathe\u2019: Delhi\u2019s rubbish dumps drive sky-high methane emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaking, \u2018super emitter\u2019 landfills of India\u2019s capital are a global hotspot for the potent greenhouse gas, according to satellite data<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/feb\/12\/revealed-the-1200-big-methane-leaks-from-waste-dumps-trashing-the-planet\">Revealed: The 1,200 methane leaks from waste dumps trashing the planet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They tower above Delhi like monstrous mountains, feasted upon by birds, flies, vermin and cows, and emitting an inescapable stench of rot. These \u201ctrash mountains\u201d loom so large \u2013 several miles wide and more than 200ft (60 metres) high \u2013 that they are visible from across the city.<\/p>\n<p>The rubbish dumps, located in the neighbourhoods of Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla, are where more than 10,000 tonnes of Delhi\u2019s waste ends up every day: everything from vegetable peelings to glass bottles, plastic packaging, batteries, broken toys and discarded clothes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/12\/delhi-india-rubbish-dumps-sky-high-methane-emissions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaking, \u2018super emitter\u2019 landfills of India\u2019s capital are a global hotspot for the potent greenhouse gas, according to satellite dataRevealed: The 1,200 methane leaks from waste dumps trashing the planetThey tower above Delhi like monstrous mountains, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2331,353,65,62,466,61,304,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-delhi","category-environment","category-india","category-pollution","category-south-and-central-asia","category-waste","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61854,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61853\/revisions\/61854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}