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  • An Enormous Landfill Spontaneously Combusted in India

    An Enormous Landfill Spontaneously Combusted in India

    It’s hot enough in India to make one of Delhi’s biggest trash piles spontaneously combust. A fire began last Tuesday at the Bhalswa landfill, a massive site in northeast Delhi that lies along a canal that connects to the Yamuna River. The huge landfill, which takes mostly unsorted waste, is as tall as a 17-story…