Revealed: the methane mega-leaks from UN climate summit host Turkey

The Guardian reports the following. ENC is republishing it as an attributed briefing, not as independently confirmed fact. If this item is false or incomplete, the responsibility sits with The Guardian, which released it. 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 they have to sleep with their windows closed even during hot summer nights. They know the source, too: the huge Silivri municipal waste dump a few miles away that is belching out stinking gases as food and other organic waste rots. “The smell is not subtle. It suffocates you,” said Kemalettin Özenç, sitting outside a tea shop in the village of Yolçatı. “It’s worse when the air is still: sometimes families linger until midnight out here. Even when you go inside it’s inescap… Original link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/05/methane-mega-leaks-from-un-climate-summit-host-turkey