Harvested from the nest of eider ducks found wild in Iceland ... used to protect it from arctic conditions and freezing cold seas. During the breeding season, this down naturally sheds, and ...

With abundant body fat and thick insulating plumage, this rare sea duck is built for life in the tundra. But the Arctic may be getting too warm for the Steller's eider, and the species is rapidly ...

just south of the Arctic Circle, forms a cultural landscape of 107,294 ha, of which 6,881 ha is land. The islands bear testimony to a distinctive frugal way of life based on fishing and the harvesting ...