It's an exclusive tourist destination and one of the most pristine places on the planet. It's the last place you would expect to find birds with bellies so full of plastic that they crunch if you ...

Sable shearwater birds on Australia's Lord Howe Island are so full of plastic their bellies make an audible crunching sound when scientists touch them. Source: Dr Jennifer Lavers/Adrift Lab ...

Lord Howe Island has the look of a destination ripe for overtourism, with verdant mountaintops, pristine white-sand beaches and clear-blue waters teeming with colorful fish.

Exclusive before and after photos reveal how recent bleaching near Australia’s Lord Howe Island has dramatically changed the region’s coral reefs.

From managing tsunami warnings to rescuing hikers in distress, Senior Constable Joel Merchant's days are never the same, as he keeps the peace on remote Lord Howe Island.

One of the questions people Google about Lord Howe Island is what currency the island uses. Which seems absurd, considering it is just off the coast of NSW and wholly a part of the state. That is ...

Boarding the plane to Lord Howe Island, I’m feeling anxious about two things. I hadn’t realised until after I booked our seven-day, Seven Peaks walking holiday that there would be no internet ...

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 ...

Lord Howe Island has limited internet or phone reception and it’s great With no phone or internet service (outside of venues that offer it), Lord Howe is a tropical time capsule of untouched ...