| 2017 wildfire season | |
|---|---|
 Wildfires burning throughout the Southwestern U.S. (Picture taken on June 27) | |
| Date(s) | January–December 2017 |
| Season | |
← 2016
2018 → | |
The 2017 wildfire season involved wildfires on multiple continents. On Greenland, which is mostly covered by ice and permafrost, multiple fires occurred in melted peat bogs, described as "unusual, and possibly unprecedented".[1][2] Popular media asked whether the wildfires were related to global warming.[3][4] Research published by NASA states "climate change has increased fire risk in many regions", but caused "greater severity in the colder latitudes" where boreal and temperate forests exist,[5][6] and scholars have described "a warm weather fluctuation that has become more frequent in recent decades" related to wildfires, without naming any particular event as being directly caused by global warming.[7][8]
Below is a partial list of articles on wildfires from around the world in the year 2017.
- ^ A 'Massive' Wildfire Is Now Blazing In Greenland, NPR, August 8, 2017
- ^ Wildfires are burning in Greenland, Wildfire Today, August 7, 2017
- ^ Robinson Meyer (September 7, 2017), "Has Climate Change Intensified 2017's Western Wildfires?", The Atlantic
- ^ Linda Baker (September 6, 2017), "Wildfire apocalypse: Is climate change or forest management to blame?", Oregon Business
- ^ Researchers Detect a Global Drop in Fires, NASA Earth Observatory, June 30, 2017
- ^ Andrew Masterson (July 3, 2017), "Global drop in wildfires results in lower emissions but threatens life on the savannah", Cosmos
- ^ "Research in ancient forests show link between climate change and wildfires", Science Daily, August 29, 2017 (summarizes Portland State University report)
- ^ Dominique Schroeder; Mariëtte Le Roux (July 27, 2017), Climate change will feed wildfires: experts, phys.org