A trash heap 62 meters high shows the scale of India’s climate challenge

New Delhi CNN — At the Bhalswa landfill in northwest Delhi, a steady flow of jeeps zigzag up the trash heap to dump more garbage on a pile now over 62 meters (203 feet) high. Fires caused by heat and methane gas sporadically break out - the Delhi Fire Service Department has responded to 14 fires so far this year - and some deep beneath the pile can smolder for weeks or months, while men, women and children work nearby, sifting through the rubbish to find items to sell. Some of the 200,000 residents who live in Bhalswa say the…