{
  "id": 464520,
  "title": "Toxic Underground Fires Are Spreading at California Landfills",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/toxic-underground-fires-are-spreading-at-california-landfills",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-10T11:34:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Slashdot",
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    "url": "https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/09/2232249/toxic-underground-fires-are-spreading-at-california-landfills"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Three years ago environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside California's Chiquita Canyon Landfill, reports the Los Angeles Times. [Alternate URL here.] \"Few imagined the calamity that would follow. \"Somehow the landfill's pollution control system introduced oxygen below, causing decades-old waste to rapidly decompose, generating intense heat and eventually widespread…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}