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Wildlife-rich grasslands provide great benefits to society and are vital resources: for bees and other pollinators which we all rely on; for the abundance of nature which depends on wild grasses and flowers, from butterflies to barn owls; for securing soils and enabling landscapes to hold and filter water, preventing flooding and pollution; for carbon storage, and as living museums which have evolved over millennia. These beautiful and valuable habitats are vanishing – and the dazzling array of species that depend on them are under threat.

Stephen Trotter, The Wildlife Trusts’...

For the first time, Choccie Bar is opening its studio doors to impart a few choccie secrets as well as giving participants the opportunity to create and design a few rather scrummy Easter Gifts this Easter.

"We're frequently asked if we will hold chocolate workshops and we felt that Easter was a great time to invite people in to help cook up some chocolate magic", says Choccie Bar owner, Katie Jones.

So, in response to a (growing) number of requests, this Easter, Choccie Bar will be welcoming attendees to special creative chocolate course. The workshop will...

Exeter School was pleased to welcome Professor A C Grayling, Master of New College of Humanities, last week when he delivered a lecture on the value of studying the humanities.

Professor Grayling spoke to over 200 pupils aged 16-18 from Exeter School, The Maynard, Wellington School and Exeter College along with their teachers on Friday 28 March.

Professor A C Grayling spoke for 90 minutes on the value of studying the humanities in which he invited pupils to consider 'What is Knowledge'. He then took questions from pupils in Exeter School's newly extended Music School Hall...

Pioneering new research from the University of Exeter could have a major impact on climate and environmental science by drastically transforming the perceived reliability of key observations of precipitation, which includes rain, sleet and snow.

The ground breaking study examines the effect that increased aerosol concentrations in the atmosphere, emitted as a result of burning fossil fuels, had on regional temperature and precipitation levels.

Scientists from Exeter’s Mathematics department compared observed regional temperature and precipitation changes throughout the 20th...