Bristol Post • 13th September 2022

Fascinating facts for every day of the year - Eugene Byrne

Bristol Life • 2nd September 2022

Bristol Life - Issue 322

Included as part of the "Bristol Lives" series - page 98.

Bristol 24/7 • 2nd July 2022

My Bristol Favourites: Ashley Coates

Included as part of B24-7's "Bristol Favourites" series.

Medium • 12th March 2022

Clifton’s Other Field Marshal

This article was originally printed in the Cliftonian Magazine (2020/21 edition), to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Anzac Day in Australia.

Medium • 1st October 2021

India’s historic cinema halls deserve a second chance

Receiving the news that one of the theatres built by my ancestor’s firm, Madan Theatres, might be facing demolition. I had been aware of some time of the threat to India’s single screen heritage and dared not follow news about the fate of these buildings too closely...

Medium • 26th September 2021

My cat is not a pet

Recently asked about my “pets” this week I found myself a little stuck for words. I was prepared to talk about the cat I live with, the fish I have lived with but I was not comfortable saying that I have owned them, nor did I want to use the word pet to describe them.

Medium • 12th July 2021

Solitary Bees: What they are and how to help them

Did you know the majority of the world’s bees are solitary and do not live in hives? These are solitary bees. They make up 90 per cent of bee species globally and are extremely important pollinators. Like many insects, habitat destruction has led to a reduction in their numbers and they now need our help.

Medium • 29th August 2020

Extinct: a selection of lost animals and how we wiped them out

Over the past few centuries, humans have been responsible for an astonishing decline in the abundance and diversity of the world’s wildlife. Today the rate of extinction is thought to be as rapid as 15–20 species per day, and new warnings about the dangers of ecological collapse seem to appear almost every week. But human-induced extinction is far from a modern phenomenon...

Medium • 29th June 2020

A Bristol-In-A-Day Itinerary

In the year since coming back to my home city, I have had a few people ask for a guide to spending just a day in Bristol. Clearly, it is not possible to fit all that this amazing city can offer into one day, but below is what I recently came up with for a friend. It is intended as a loop, starting in Clifton, heading down the the docks and the centre and back up again. Realistically, you would need to be pretty speedy, but it covers off everything I would want to see if I was coming here for th

Medium • 10th June 2020

My dry eye story

As a dry eye sufferer on the more extreme end of the spectrum, I spend a bit of time researching my condition and in-so-doing, I have become aware of a few blogs called variations on “my dry eye story”, written by fellow severe dry eye patients...

Uncovering the History of a Bristol House • 12th November 2019

Uncovering the history of a Bristol house

This house history was first compiled in 2019 and is it grew and sprawled into many different areas concerning the history of Bristol and Somerset, it was suggested that a version might go online in order to aid others with their research.

The Independent • 11th September 2019

How does today's mass extinction compare with those from history?

From insect population crashes and deforestation to coral bleaching and ocean warming, evidence supporting the claim that we are bringing about Earth’s sixth mass extinction seems to come out almost every week. A landmark UN report from May this year suggested that species are now being lost “at rates unprecedented in human history”, with around 1 million species directly threatened with extinction. The rate of loss is thought to be somewhere between 10 to a hundred times higher than the averag

The Independent • 31st July 2019

Long read: The forgotten history of the plumage trade and the women who brought it down

Few people are aware that the RSPB, Europe’s largest conservation organisation by membership, was founded by Victorian women working to end the cruelty of the feather trade...

The Independent • 24th July 2019

Long read: Resurrection biology: Do we have the right to bring back certain species from the dead?

Few people enjoying a walk on Scotland’s coast today know that it is missing a fascinating animal: a charismatic, large, flightless seabird that is Britain’s very own dodo. In July 1840, Britain’s last great auks were killed on the island of St Kilda....

The Independent • 13th June 2019

Long read: A brief history of turtle soup and its role in ensuring we protect turtles today

Interfering with turtles today can land you in a lot of trouble. The urge to play with them is too much for some tourists but can carry a hefty fine, as two US citizens found out in 2017...

The Independent • 22nd May 2019

Long read: whale intelligence continues to amaze and dumbfound scientists

The divers and scientists lucky enough to spend time among the world’s whales often find themselves wondering what is going on in the oversized brains of the sea’s largest inhabitants.

Evening Standard • 8th May 2019

Where to see London's wildlife – including seals, scorpions & lizards

From bats on Hampstead Heath to snakes on Regent’s Canal, a surprising number of different species call London home – something which looked all but impossible a few decades ago.

The Independent • 9th October 2017

Blue Energy: The marine renewables sector starts to show promise

Three hundred miles north of Edinburgh, and located in some of Britain’s most turbulent seas, the people of the Orkney Islands have been tested by the region’s weather for centuries....

Evening Standard • 22nd September 2017

Electric alternatives to your fossil-fuelled SUV

Far from being boring replacements to their petrol or diesel powered predecessors, EVs are often proving to be faster as well as quieter than the equivalent models in their categories...

The Independent • 18th September 2017

Whaling may have all-but ended, but threats to the world’s whales remain

After more than a decade harassing Japanese whaling vessels in the Southern Ocean, marine conservation organisation Sea Shepherd announced this summer that it would no longer be obstructing the seasonal...