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One Arctic, One Future, One Spill?
Exploring the shared risk – to people, nature, and wildlife – of an oil spill in the Beaufort Sea

Exploring the risks of oil spills in the Beaufort Sea
With growing interest in Arctic development, WWF has new research modelling how spilled oil might spread in the Beaufort Sea.

Just when I thought I couldn’t go any further North…
In late-April, I boarded a plane with a group of Inuvialuit and Canadian scientists and embarked on a flight from Inuvik, NWT, across the pure wilderness of the Arctic North Slope, to the Barrow, Alaska- the northernmost town on the North American continent.

Beaufort Sea initiative
But I don’t have a head scarf, I said, looking at my taxi driver, who came here via Calgary from the Sudan. It’s fine, he said, no one minds.

Settling into my new role in Inuvik
The Mackenzie River crossing is open - that is, it is frozen hard. I know because today I could find lemongrass, fresh basil and wonderful pears at Arctic Foods. The price of which you do not want to know. Trucks are on the Dempster Highway again.