As COP31 comes to Turkey, satellites reveal a landfill methane problem
SEYMEN, Turkey, Nov 7 - In the countryside west of Istanbul, trucks line up to empty mixed household waste from the city of 16 million people onto a vast landscape of decomposing rubbish, where landfill gas is captured to generate electricity at a nearby plant.
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Two or more outlets reported this story and its reliability score reached 65%, so WorldPulse marks it verified. That means more than one outlet says so, not that it is proven true.
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[Claude] Report 2 is a republished version of the same satellite-methane story about the Istanbul-area landfill ahead of COP31, with the same details and no conflicting facts.
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