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A crown fire (a forest fire that spreads from treetop to treetop) that is part of the Swan Lake wildfire rages through a stand of black spruce in a boreal forest in Alaska on June 19, 2019. In Alaska and Greenland, record or near-record high temperatures have contributed to the upsurge in wildfires.
Ilulissat, the municipal seat and largest town of the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland. Located 250 miles north of the Arctic circle. (Photo: By Pcb21, CC BY-SA 3.0)