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Harold Lovell, Senior Lecturer, Glaciology, University of Portsmouth

‘This was something new’: what people in Greenland told us about learning to live with wildfires

After several quieter years, wildfires have returned to western Greenland.

Two recent fires have brought renewed attention to a landscape more typically associated with glaciers and melting ice sheets than flames. But when we visited the region in 2023 to investigate a series of unusual large wildfires that burned a few years earlier, local residents told us they would not be surprised if the fires came back.

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