On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded by crystal clear ocean, live some of the most plastic-contaminated birds in ...

The Tasman Viking trawler, operated by Westfleet Fishing, pulled up 37kg of coral while bottom trawling in the Lord Howe Rise. A New Zealand bottom trawler has hauled up 37 kilograms of coral ...

The tiny Lord Howe Island Museum has terrific displays on the island's evolution. The most memorable is a replica of an extinct giant horned turtle's skeleton (61-2-6563-2114).

Seabirds have been fishing plastic from the ocean and feeding it to their chicks, researchers say. One bird was found to have ingested nearly 800 pieces.

Blue sharks make up 91 per cent of the bycatch in the Lord Howe Rise and South Tasman Sea. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto “There’s a huge issue of indiscriminate industrial fishing all over ...

The forest at the tip of Lord Howe Island's highest peak is an otherworldly place alive with animals and plants not found elsewhere on Earth. But it's taken radical action to save it.

Destinations on the rise for 2021. 25 amazing places to inspire future journeys and remind us why we love to travel. A diver explores the coral reefs around Lord Howe Island.

Mount Lidgbird and Gower rise over Lord Howe Island, New South Wales. Picture: Getty Images. Gift this article. 5 min read. 3:53PM April 26, 2025. The Weekend Australian Magazine.

Lord Howe Island sits 600km off the Australian coast in the Tasman Sea. (ABC News: Sharon Gordon) Most of the island's 400 residents buy two weeks' worth of groceries online from supermarkets on ...

"Lord Howe had a bleaching event in 2010 and 2011, also one in 2019, and now in 2024 … this event was one of the worst they have recorded. "Some reef areas were having 50 per cent bleaching ...

The Lord Howe Rise is a largely unexplored deep-sea plateau home to hundreds of fish species and underwater mountains or seamounts. Deepwater corals grow slowly, and disturbances from bottom ...

Lord Howe Island — a speck of land about 370 miles off mainland Australia, ... Plastic pollution is on the rise but “does that explain a doubling in 12 months?