The University of Exeter is holding a range of activties tomorrow to celebrate American Thanksgiving.
Celebrations will include a traditonal Thanksgiving lunch for staff and students and a 'touch' American football game on the piazza (supported by the University's cheerleaders).
There will also be an all-American themed harvest festival eating area where a traditional two course Thanksgiving feast of roast turkey or nut roast with gravy, creamed potato, buttered sweet corn and other vegetables, followed by pumpkin pie or American cheesecake, will be available....
Exeter Airport can reflect on a busy summer of 2013 where passenger numbers from May until October exceeded expectations and were over forty thousand up on the same period in 2012. The overall inbound and outbound passengers for the five months totalled 415,618, an increase of 11%. Managing Director Matt Roach said: “New flights this year to Barcelona and Nice together with nine other scheduled international routes operated by Flybe, accounted for a 19% increase of that passenger traffic and were the main reason for the successful period. There has also been a growing awareness of the...
Many Caribbean coral reefs have either stopped growing or are on the threshold of starting to erode, new evidence has revealed.
Coral reefs build their structures by both producing and accumulating calcium carbonate, and this is essential for the maintenance and continued vertical growth capacity of reefs. An international research team has discovered that the amount of new carbonate being added by Caribbean coral reefs is now significantly below rates measured over recent geological timescales, and in some habitats is as much as 70% lower.
