How do you define paradise? Popes, pundits and peons have been using the term loosely for centuries but there is no set paradise. The one thing I’ve learned from traveling to every country in the ...

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 ...

Jutting out of the Pacific Ocean 375 miles off the coast of Australia is Ball’s Pyramid, the most bizarre island on Earth. It is, as promised, shaped like a skinny pyramid, the remnant of a shield ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was ...

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 ...

Lord Howe Island Airport in Australia has been named the world's most beautiful airport landing. A recent study using eye-tracking technology revealed that its unique ocean-to-beach runway captured ...

An insect that was long taken for dead has been found. The Lord Howe Island stick insect, considered extinct for years, still walks—or crawls—the Earth. Hungry rodents diminished their numbers long ...

Some 330 miles off Australia’s New South Wales’ east coast, you’ll find one of the prettiest islands imaginable. Lord Howe Island is a tourist’s delight and a fisherman’s paradise — it even earned a ...

Maria Seton receives funding from the Australian Research Council and has received ship time funding on Australia's Marine National Facility. Nicholas Mortimer receives funding from the New Zealand ...