In Iceland, the harvesting of these precious feathers has created a peculiar bond between human and duck. What can this unique relationship teach us? By Edward Posnett In Ísafjörður, the capital of ...

All these years later, Cory Eider still remembers the humiliation he felt after losing a table tennis match at West Duluth’s Valley Youth Center during his 1990s childhood. The 32-year-old scoffs at ...

ALL of us at some time are visited by difficult periods in our lives, occasions when we must navigate turbulent waters, travel tough journeys, often with uncertain outcomes. Such experiences test our ...

A year-round inhabitant of the Arctic, the Steller's eider is known as “the bird that sat in the campfire” by the Inupiat Eskimo — a reference to the burnt coloring of the male eider's underside. With ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Real eiderdown is one of the warmest natural fibers you can find, but it doesn't come cheap. And an eiderdown double duvet could cost you over $8,000.

Jean-François Giroux is a director of the Société Duvetnor, a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of the islands of the Lower St. Lawrence and to public education through an ...