The quest to discover how future climate change will impact the formidable Indian monsoon phenomenon could find the answer rooted in the prehistoric past.
A team of international scientists, including Dr Kate Littler from the University of Exeter, are investigating how the annual monsoon has responded to cyclical changes in Earth’s climate over the last 8 million years. By studying layers of sediment that have collected at the bottom of the northern Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, the team are able to ascertain how the Indian monsoon developed in the deep past...
A business that connects trainees from around the world with companies in Devon is expanding its work in Exeter.
The Training Partnership puts together companies with high-calibre trainees looking to improve their business skills, providing short term work placements that benefit both. Placements are supernumerary and funded through EU schemes such as Erasmus+ and PONS.
Several Exeter-based organisations are already signed up, including the blur Group, Exeter City Council and MOTO.
Now the Training Partnership, based at the Torbay Innovation Centre, is encouraging...
Meteorologists at the Exeter-based Met Office are forecasting high pressure for much of the Bank Holiday weekend across the UK, which means a good deal of dry weather, along with light winds.
Forecasters say that the Easter break is likely to start on rather a cloudy and damp note, with a frontal system sweeping outbreaks of rain across the country on Good Friday. This cloud and rain will gradually clear from the west through the course of the day, with drier and brighter conditions spreading eastwards during the afternoon and evening.
A caravan was destroyed by fire at Exeter Racecourse this morning.
One fire fighting appliance from Middlemoor and an appliance from Danes Castle attended reports of a caravan on fire at Exeter Racecourse on Haldon Hill just after 7.40am.
A spokesman for the fire service said: “Upon arrival, crews found one touring caravan completely destroyed by fire, crews used one main jet and two breathing apparatus and a thermal imaging camera.
Prop Alex Brown insists Exeter has become ‘home from home’ for him and that he was more than happy to extend his stay with the Chiefs for a further two years at least.
Signed during the summer of 2013 from Championship side Doncaster Knights, the Rochford-born tight-head has settled well to life in the Westcountry and has established himself as a proven force within the Exeter front-row.
An LV= Cup winner last term, Brown was also part of this season’s squad that came within a whisker of reclaiming their crown against Saracens at Northampton a fortnight ago.
As more powers shift from Whitehall to town halls, the South West Housing Initiative (SWHI) is rallying businesses to call for politicians to shape UK devolution in a way which will solve the region’s housing crisis. This crisis is having a detrimental impact on businesses. SWHI, a partnership of housing professionals committed to combating the region’s housing crisis, said that employees will increasingly struggle to find affordable homes near where they work.
Businesses are already struggling to retain staff and recruitment is becoming more challenging. The average house price in...
Renowned British tea and coffee merchant Ringtons is bringing its traditional doorstep delivery service to thousands more households across the South West thanks to a new business venture in Newton Abbot. The new Ringtons base in Newton Abbot has been launched following a period of substantial growth on the south coast of England. Thousands of residents are already enjoying Ringtons’ quality tea, coffee, edibles and seasonal gifts from the company’s existing bases in Hointon, Sidmouth, Exeter and Ivybridge, and the new site will help expand Ringtons’ reach. With over 15 years’ experience...
Picture yourself on a spaceship, hundreds of miles above the Earth. Your journey into the cosmos will last some time - but, you only have a limited number of resources on board for yourself and your fellow space travellers, which, given their scarcity, you need to manage wisely.
As far back as 1966, economist Kenneth E. Boulding envisioned the need for a movement away from what he termed a "cowboy economy“, based on the assumption of apparently boundless resources, to a "spaceman economy". In his essay “The Coming of a Spaceship Earth,” he made the analogy that...
A generation of children are growing up without experiencing simple pleasures such as splashing in puddles or mud, building a sandcastle - or even making daisy chains, a study has revealed.
Researchers found a whole range of traditional nature activities could soon become a thing of the past as children spend their spare time playing computer games, watching TV or just hanging out with friends instead.
Playing in open spaces and woodland, planting their own seeds and climbing trees are also among the activities a large number of today’s youngsters have never tried.
