Rubus chamaemorus (cloudberry) is an amber-colored berry that resembles a raspberry.It grows wild in bogs and forests, primarily in Northern Finland near the Arctic Circle.
Above, the Medusa-like arms of a northern basket star (right) seek a meal of zooplankton beside a polar alcyonarian soft coral in the shallows beneath an ice sheet in the Canadian Arctic.
Most of the birds that have ent the brief summer on the tundra now disa ear, leaving only the golden eagle, the gyrfalcon, the ptarmigan, and the owy owl to brave the sunle northern winter.