Real name Peter Millson, Max put the “jazz” in The Jazz Butcher in the 1980s with his fluid style that was indebted to Wes Montgomery and other greats. He sang lead on a few JBC tunes, like the ...

Max Eider, veteran guitarist and member of The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy, as well as a solo artist, has passed away. The sad ...

Threatened spectacled eiders, sea ducks that have died in large numbers after ingesting lead from hunters' spent ammunition, will be tracked and counted in a research project announced Friday by the U ...

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 ...

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 ...

What’s better than new gear? Free gear. Every single day of October, POWDER is doling out the goods to readers in our 31 Days of Giveaways. Eider is decking you out with a new kit from their 2016 line ...

The Living World is a gentle, weekend natural history programme, which aims to broadcast the best, most intimate wild encounters with British wildlife. In this series Brett Westwood reveals a flavour ...

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.

This is the coldest time of year in the Northern Hemisphere. I only step outside attired in a thick cocoon of thermal insulation, including sweater, coat, hat and gloves. But even on the chilliest ...