Researchers found 778 individual pieces of plastic in one bird on Australia's Lord Howe Island Rachel McRady is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an entertainment journalist for more than ...

On a remote Australian island renowned for its natural beauty, researchers have made a grisly discovery: Seabirds have ingested so much plastic they crunch when touched. The “harrowing” finding of ...

On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded by crystal-clear ocean live some of the most plastic-contaminated birds in the world. They have bellies so full of fragments, they crunch when touched.

A remarkable example of isolated oceanic islands, born of volcanic activity more than 2,000 m under the sea, these islands boast a spectacular topography and are home to numerous endemic species, ...

Because of its spectacular scenic beauty and tame wildlife, Lord Howe Island is a South Pacific paradise. Lord Howe’s wild beauty ranks it among the most alluring islands in the South Pacific. And ...

Hidden deep in the Tasman Sea, Lord Howe Island is a paradise of turquoise waters, towering cliffs, and untouched wilderness.

For years, scientists thought that the Lord Howe Island stick insect was extinct, the subject of predation by invasive rats on the remote island off Australia, but then a few were discovered on a ...

Human-Wildlife Interactions, Vol. 17, No. 2, Special Topics: Island Invaders (Fall 2023), pp. 148-163 (16 pages) The 2019 rodent eradication on 1,455-ha Lord Howe Island, Australia, was the second and ...

In the aquamarine waters surrounding Lord Howe Island, you can swim with Australia’s only community of Galapagos sharks.

Lord Howe Island, a oceanic outcrop of volcanic origin situated between Australia and New Zealand, is fringed by the worlds southernmost consolidated coral reef. The Capricorn Group of the southern ...