Qantas has touched down for the final time on Lord Howe Island. The airline's history on the remote isle dates back to the post-World War II flying boat service from Sydney.

Lord who? Howe where? You may not have heard of Lord Howe Island, a spec in the Tasman sea between Australia and New Zealand—many Australians haven’t either. Only about 400 people call this ...

Warning: this story contains graphic images. The tiny Lord Howe Island is a sanctuary of volcanic rock off Australia's east coast, so carefully preserved that the number of visitors allowed at any ...

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

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 ...

To be fair, Sir David has called quite a few places his “favorite” over the years. But in 2021, while shooting the BBC doc A ...

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

On the pristine shores of Lord Howe Island, a remote World Heritage site in the Tasman Sea, scientists have made a haunting discovery: Seabird chicks so packed with plastic their stomachs crunch ...

Lord Howe Island — a speck of land about 370 miles off mainland Australia, home to just a few hundred people — is the breeding ground for tens of thousands of sable shearwaters: dark brown ...