First EVs arrive in the 80s and 90s I was amazed to learn that the first electric car to arrive on Lord Howe Island was all the way back in the early 1980s, when the LHI Board imported a converted ...

‘I’ve never seen that before’,” Hank Bower from the Lord Howe Island board told the Sydney Morning Herald, in 2022. Back in the 1950s, the island government made the decision to cap ...

The soil beneath Lord Howe Island's famous Kentia palms could hold the key to unlocking an evolutionary mystery that has been confounding scientists since the time of Charles Darwin. The 19th ...

On a pristine Australian island, the seabirds have become so full of plastic they crackle and crunch. Warning: this story contains graphic images. The tiny Lord Howe Island is a sanctuary of ...

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 ...

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 ...

They have bellies so full of fragments, they crunch when touched. Lord Howe Island — a speck of land about 370 miles off mainland Australia, home to just a few hundred people — is the breeding ...

Lord Howe Island, a dot in the Tasman Sea 700 kilometres east of Sydney, has been luring travellers since the turn of the 20th century, when they arrived on ships. It's a truly remarkable place ...

What's happening at Lord Howe Island is only a snapshot of what scientists are observing across the country. On Australia's west coast, Ningaloo Reef has had Degree Heating Weeks (DHW) of 16.

Bond returned this month from a visit to Lord Howe Island, a remote territory about 360 miles off Australia’s east coast. He is part of a team of researchers from Adrift Lab, a global unit that ...

Wandering the wild landscapes of Lord Howe, it’s easy to see why the crescent-shaped island has a UNESCO listing for natural beauty – one of only a handful of archipelagos bestowed such status.