Idyllic Lord Howe Island has been rocked by a local man who admitted preying on young women working at resorts, where he raped one and indecently assaulted another.

Tyrin Thompson Shick, 28, who grew up on the island off the north coast of NSW and went to a private school in Port Macquarie is in custody awaiting sentencing. In December 2017, a 21-year-old student ...

Lord Howe Island lies in the middle of the ocean, about 700 kilometres northeast of Sydney. It’s covered in lush forest and fringed by the world’s most southerly coral reef ecosystem. This reef system ...

He has been besieged by birds, had 120m crabs try to crawl up his trouser leg and stayed cool beside an erupting Icelandic volcano. As David Attenborough turns 100, we celebrate his most extraordinary ...

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New research shows Lord Howe Island’s coral reef plays a critical role in connecting and sustaining coral populations across the Pacific. Using ocean circulation models, scientists tracked coral ...

True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time ...