This is going to sound weird, but there’s a wildfire right now in west Greenland. You know, that huge island of mostly ice? Part of it is on fire. There’s been nothing even close to this since reliable satellite-based fire detection records began in Greenland in 2000. Very small wildfires can evade satellite detection, and old-timer scientists who have worked in Greenland for decades say that micro-fires there aren’t necessarily uncommon. This week’s fire, however, is on another level. The fire was first spotted by a local aircraft on July 31. By American standards, the Greenland fire is small, covering around 1,200 acres.
— source grist.org 2017-08-12