Bizarre Wildfire Visible From Space Rages on Ice Continent

In an inexplicable mixture of fire and ice, a wildfire has been burning out of control in frozen Greenland, wreaking havoc with the ecosystem. The strange phenomenon of mixing opposing elements has its roots in the Bible, lending a deeper meaning to its reappearance.

Even in the summer, 90 percent of Greenland is covered in a sheet of ice up to two miles thick, so when satellites first picked up thermal images indicating a large fire in late July, scientists thought it was an error in the data. It wasn’t until a pilot in a small airplane actually spotted the blaze on July 31 that scientists realized there was a problem.

The blaze, covering about two square miles, is unprecedented and nothing similar to this has been recorded in the cold island nation since satellite monitoring began in 2000. NASA called it “an unusual event.”