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Scientists alarmed after two #wildfires hit #Greenland within a week
Researchers say it is ‘quite wild’ to see fires at such high northern latitudes happen so early in the year
Ajit Niranjan and Miranda Bryant
Tue 23 Jun 2026 06.44 EDT"Scientists have expressed concern after two wildfires broke out within a week of each other on the Arctic island of Greenland earlier this month.
"Fires were burning close to #Sisimiut, Greenland’s second largest town and a popular tourism centre, on 14 and 15 June, satellite imagery has shown, while a second blaze hit #Kujalleq, on the island’s southern tip, on 17 June.
"While most of Greenland, a largely autonomous territory, is covered in vast ice sheets and thick glaciers, a significant part is ice-free and covered in tundra. Wildfires in these areas are rare, but becoming more common.
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"Inunnguaq Eigil Lundblad, the emergency manager for Qeqqata municipality, which includes Sisimiut, said the fires there had broken out after 'someone used fire recklessly. We had not had much snow this winter and then very little rainfall, which is why we have very dry soil.'
"Miki Sikemsen, the emergency manager for #Kujalleq municipality, said the immediate trigger for the fire there was not yet known, but added: 'Weather conditions in the area have been unusually dry this year and we have not experienced any significant rainfall since May, which has left the vegetation very dry and highly flammable.' "
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/scientists-alarmed-wildfires-greenland#ClimateChange #Arctic #ClimateBurning #CimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDiaryGreenland #ClimateDiary
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Scientists alarmed after two #wildfires hit #Greenland within a week
Researchers say it is ‘quite wild’ to see fires at such high northern latitudes happen so early in the year
Ajit Niranjan and Miranda Bryant
Tue 23 Jun 2026 06.44 EDT"Scientists have expressed concern after two wildfires broke out within a week of each other on the Arctic island of Greenland earlier this month.
"Fires were burning close to #Sisimiut, Greenland’s second largest town and a popular tourism centre, on 14 and 15 June, satellite imagery has shown, while a second blaze hit #Kujalleq, on the island’s southern tip, on 17 June.
"While most of Greenland, a largely autonomous territory, is covered in vast ice sheets and thick glaciers, a significant part is ice-free and covered in tundra. Wildfires in these areas are rare, but becoming more common.
[...]
"Inunnguaq Eigil Lundblad, the emergency manager for Qeqqata municipality, which includes Sisimiut, said the fires there had broken out after 'someone used fire recklessly. We had not had much snow this winter and then very little rainfall, which is why we have very dry soil.'
"Miki Sikemsen, the emergency manager for #Kujalleq municipality, said the immediate trigger for the fire there was not yet known, but added: 'Weather conditions in the area have been unusually dry this year and we have not experienced any significant rainfall since May, which has left the vegetation very dry and highly flammable.' "
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/scientists-alarmed-wildfires-greenland#ClimateChange #Arctic #ClimateBurning #CimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDiaryGreenland #ClimateDiary
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Scientists alarmed after two #wildfires hit #Greenland within a week
Researchers say it is ‘quite wild’ to see fires at such high northern latitudes happen so early in the year
Ajit Niranjan and Miranda Bryant
Tue 23 Jun 2026 06.44 EDT"Scientists have expressed concern after two wildfires broke out within a week of each other on the Arctic island of Greenland earlier this month.
"Fires were burning close to #Sisimiut, Greenland’s second largest town and a popular tourism centre, on 14 and 15 June, satellite imagery has shown, while a second blaze hit #Kujalleq, on the island’s southern tip, on 17 June.
"While most of Greenland, a largely autonomous territory, is covered in vast ice sheets and thick glaciers, a significant part is ice-free and covered in tundra. Wildfires in these areas are rare, but becoming more common.
[...]
"Inunnguaq Eigil Lundblad, the emergency manager for Qeqqata municipality, which includes Sisimiut, said the fires there had broken out after 'someone used fire recklessly. We had not had much snow this winter and then very little rainfall, which is why we have very dry soil.'
"Miki Sikemsen, the emergency manager for #Kujalleq municipality, said the immediate trigger for the fire there was not yet known, but added: 'Weather conditions in the area have been unusually dry this year and we have not experienced any significant rainfall since May, which has left the vegetation very dry and highly flammable.' "
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/scientists-alarmed-wildfires-greenland#ClimateChange #Arctic #ClimateBurning #CimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDiaryGreenland #ClimateDiary
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Scientists alarmed after two #wildfires hit #Greenland within a week
Researchers say it is ‘quite wild’ to see fires at such high northern latitudes happen so early in the year
Ajit Niranjan and Miranda Bryant
Tue 23 Jun 2026 06.44 EDT"Scientists have expressed concern after two wildfires broke out within a week of each other on the Arctic island of Greenland earlier this month.
"Fires were burning close to #Sisimiut, Greenland’s second largest town and a popular tourism centre, on 14 and 15 June, satellite imagery has shown, while a second blaze hit #Kujalleq, on the island’s southern tip, on 17 June.
"While most of Greenland, a largely autonomous territory, is covered in vast ice sheets and thick glaciers, a significant part is ice-free and covered in tundra. Wildfires in these areas are rare, but becoming more common.
[...]
"Inunnguaq Eigil Lundblad, the emergency manager for Qeqqata municipality, which includes Sisimiut, said the fires there had broken out after 'someone used fire recklessly. We had not had much snow this winter and then very little rainfall, which is why we have very dry soil.'
"Miki Sikemsen, the emergency manager for #Kujalleq municipality, said the immediate trigger for the fire there was not yet known, but added: 'Weather conditions in the area have been unusually dry this year and we have not experienced any significant rainfall since May, which has left the vegetation very dry and highly flammable.' "
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/scientists-alarmed-wildfires-greenland#ClimateChange #Arctic #ClimateBurning #CimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDiaryGreenland #ClimateDiary
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Scientists alarmed after two #wildfires hit #Greenland within a week
Researchers say it is ‘quite wild’ to see fires at such high northern latitudes happen so early in the year
Ajit Niranjan and Miranda Bryant
Tue 23 Jun 2026 06.44 EDT"Scientists have expressed concern after two wildfires broke out within a week of each other on the Arctic island of Greenland earlier this month.
"Fires were burning close to #Sisimiut, Greenland’s second largest town and a popular tourism centre, on 14 and 15 June, satellite imagery has shown, while a second blaze hit #Kujalleq, on the island’s southern tip, on 17 June.
"While most of Greenland, a largely autonomous territory, is covered in vast ice sheets and thick glaciers, a significant part is ice-free and covered in tundra. Wildfires in these areas are rare, but becoming more common.
[...]
"Inunnguaq Eigil Lundblad, the emergency manager for Qeqqata municipality, which includes Sisimiut, said the fires there had broken out after 'someone used fire recklessly. We had not had much snow this winter and then very little rainfall, which is why we have very dry soil.'
"Miki Sikemsen, the emergency manager for #Kujalleq municipality, said the immediate trigger for the fire there was not yet known, but added: 'Weather conditions in the area have been unusually dry this year and we have not experienced any significant rainfall since May, which has left the vegetation very dry and highly flammable.' "
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/scientists-alarmed-wildfires-greenland#ClimateChange #Arctic #ClimateBurning #CimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDiaryGreenland #ClimateDiary
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Conversation about impending rise of #chocolate & #coffee prices led to convo with 12yo about #ClimateChange #ClimateDisaster #ClimateBurning.
her *incensed*: and nobody's doing anything about it!
me: well, they are. but the people doing something about it aren't as powerful as the people causing it
her: but don't they get that if the Earth goes to shit, then their businesses go to shit because there's nobody left to buy their shit?!
Out of the mouths of babes, y'all.
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Conversation about impending rise of #chocolate & #coffee prices led to convo with 12yo about #ClimateChange #ClimateDisaster #ClimateBurning.
her *incensed*: and nobody's doing anything about it!
me: well, they are. but the people doing something about it aren't as powerful as the people causing it
her: but don't they get that if the Earth goes to shit, then their businesses go to shit because there's nobody left to buy their shit?!
Out of the mouths of babes, y'all.
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Conversation about impending rise of #chocolate & #coffee prices led to convo with 12yo about #ClimateChange #ClimateDisaster #ClimateBurning.
her *incensed*: and nobody's doing anything about it!
me: well, they are. but the people doing something about it aren't as powerful as the people causing it
her: but don't they get that if the Earth goes to shit, then their businesses go to shit because there's nobody left to buy their shit?!
Out of the mouths of babes, y'all.
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Conversation about impending rise of #chocolate & #coffee prices led to convo with 12yo about #ClimateChange #ClimateDisaster #ClimateBurning.
her *incensed*: and nobody's doing anything about it!
me: well, they are. but the people doing something about it aren't as powerful as the people causing it
her: but don't they get that if the Earth goes to shit, then their businesses go to shit because there's nobody left to buy their shit?!
Out of the mouths of babes, y'all.
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Conversation about impending rise of #chocolate & #coffee prices led to convo with 12yo about #ClimateChange #ClimateDisaster #ClimateBurning.
her *incensed*: and nobody's doing anything about it!
me: well, they are. but the people doing something about it aren't as powerful as the people causing it
her: but don't they get that if the Earth goes to shit, then their businesses go to shit because there's nobody left to buy their shit?!
Out of the mouths of babes, y'all.
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Time to move someplace where I can grow my own avocados? 🤔
(I just gave up on my latest attempt to grow my own. But this latest one *did* last far longer than any of its predecessors. That said, even if I am successful in the future, Oklahoma is not a place where I'll ever get enough fruit to sate my #avocado hunger.)
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Time to move someplace where I can grow my own avocados? 🤔
(I just gave up on my latest attempt to grow my own. But this latest one *did* last far longer than any of its predecessors. That said, even if I am successful in the future, Oklahoma is not a place where I'll ever get enough fruit to sate my #avocado hunger.)
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Time to move someplace where I can grow my own avocados? 🤔
(I just gave up on my latest attempt to grow my own. But this latest one *did* last far longer than any of its predecessors. That said, even if I am successful in the future, Oklahoma is not a place where I'll ever get enough fruit to sate my #avocado hunger.)
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Time to move someplace where I can grow my own avocados? 🤔
(I just gave up on my latest attempt to grow my own. But this latest one *did* last far longer than any of its predecessors. That said, even if I am successful in the future, Oklahoma is not a place where I'll ever get enough fruit to sate my #avocado hunger.)
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Time to move someplace where I can grow my own avocados? 🤔
(I just gave up on my latest attempt to grow my own. But this latest one *did* last far longer than any of its predecessors. That said, even if I am successful in the future, Oklahoma is not a place where I'll ever get enough fruit to sate my #avocado hunger.)