Nearly 100 years ago, a British supply ship ran aground at Lord Howe, a tiny island roughly four hundred miles east of Australia. Black rats trickled off the ship, scouring the island and feasted on ...

Extinction is permanent, but there are rare cases where creatures we thought had died out suddenly turn up alive and well. That's the story of Lord Howe Island stick insects (or "tree lobster"), which ...

Lord Howe Island Airport off the coast of Australia is a gateway to a UNESCO site and has a landing strip you'll never forget. Evie Carrick is a writer and editor who’s lived in five countries and ...

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. Yet on this island of ...

Lord Howe Island stick insects were once numerous on the tiny crescent-shaped island off the coast of Australia for which they are named. Now, biologists who have analyzed the DNA of living and dead ...

Under his official title of biohazard detection dog, Sebbi gives my backpack a lively sniff as I step off the plane from Sydney. I’m here for the Seven Peaks Walk, five days of guided walking through ...