A new study unearths the deep Earth connection between Lord Howe Island and its sibling chain of drowned volcanoes.
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We all know the Barrier Reef – but Australia also has three other World Heritage reefs, Ningaloo and Shark Bay in Western Australia and Lord Howe Island off the New South Wales coast.
Spread by the wind, the fungal rusts are among the most feared of all plant diseases. A 2016 myrtle rust outbreak on Lord Howe Island was contained, but now its unique plants are again under threat.
A small congregation of the cockroaches was under the first rock scientists looked under, by sheer accident.
A colony-building fern that grows in treetops on Lord Howe Island has adopted a lifestyle similar to social insects, turning our understanding of the evolution of biological complexity on its head.
There are fundamental knowledge gaps around coral in the Great Barrier Reef, including how many species live there and where they’re found. Our new study finally starts to fill those gaps.
Marine heatwaves have caused coral bleaching in one of the most isolated ecosystems in the world.
Lord Howe Island is part of an underwater volcanic chain much older than first thought, with the possibility of new islands still to form.
The ants were a threat to many native species on Lord Howe Island. They were also a pest if they got into your home.
How a species of screw pine unique to Lord Howe Island has evolved its own rainwater harvesting system that allows it to grow tall.
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Professorial fellow, James Cook University
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Associate Professor, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
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UNESCO Chair on Climate Change Variability of Natural and Cultural Heritage and Professor in Physics, James Cook University
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Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University and Senior Curator of Corals, Queensland Museum, James Cook University
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Principal research scientist, CSIRO
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