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Parts of the Northwest Territories are in extreme drought. To understand what that looks like, explore new aerial footage of rivers in affected areas.
The landscape of the NWT’s South Slave region has changed dramatically in the span of just two years.
In the spring of 2022, the town of Hay River flooded. Great Slave Lake was setting records for high water.
Now, the same lake has reached record lows and the Hay River, or what’s left of it, is clearly visible through kilometres of burn area from the 2023 wildfire season, the worst in NWT history.
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Watch the video above for a tour of some areas we looked at.
Below, you can find a range of photos from the air and on the ground that tell the story of how the landscape looks after the 2024 spring melt.
These images were taken at the end of April and start of May this year.
