For herder Bayarduuren Zunduikhuu, it is also one of the busiest. “We wake up as the sun rises,” she says. “Spring is all about the cashmere harvest.” Like many members of Mongolia’s estimated 300,000 ...

Mongolian goats produce the world's highest quality cashmere wool, and international demand has soared. There's a problem, though. These goats are... How Your Cashmere Sweater Is Decimating Mongolia's ...

Cashmere is an unlikely candidate for controversy. It conjures up images of cozy, expensive scarves, made from the belly hair of goats roaming across the steppes of Mongolia, using techniques and ...

In the vast, snowy Mongolian countryside, nomadic herders are combing through the hair shed by their yak. It used to be that they would throw away the hair – until Nancy Johnston persuaded them it ...

No outdoor brand has been as progressive as Patagonia in its efforts to clean up and preserve the planet while owning up to the built-in hypocrisy that comes from selling stuff at the same time. On ...

The price of cashmere is expected to rise by between 30% and 40%. The price of lambswool is also expected to rise 25%, due to growing demand for the commodity in the countries where it is produced.

HOHHOT - The world's first cloned goat bearing superfine cashmere wool was born in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, the Bayannur city government announced Sunday. The goat was born and ...

(CNN) — In the vast, snowy Mongolian countryside, nomadic herders are combing through the hair shed by their yak. It used to be that they would throw away the hair -- until Nancy Johnston persuaded ...