Newly published research shows that clouds fueled by penguin poop could help fight climate change in the Antarctic.

Penguin poop may be playing a key role in keeping climate change in check over Antarctica, new research published May 22 ...

When the wind blew from the direction of the colony, ammonia levels spiked, sometimes reaching 1,000 times above normal ...

The researchers further demonstrated that the ammonia kicks off an atmospheric chain reaction. Out at sea, tiny plantlike ...

Ammonia from the birds’ guano can mix with other gases and form clouds, potentially cooling Earth’s surface and preserving ...

Penguins could be playing a crucial role in stabilizing the climate in Antarctica when they go No. 2, according to new ...

According to the team, the data suggests that penguin poop may be helping reduce some of climate change’s effects on an ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weird way that penguin poop might be cooling Antarctica on ...

Antarctica's icy wilderness is warming rapidly under the weight of human-driven climate change, yet a new study points to an ...

Gentoo penguins in Antarctica in 2017. Researchers found that guano from Adélie penguins releases a large amount of ammonia ...

Antarctica’s icy wilderness is warming rapidly under the weight of human-driven climate change, yet a new study points to an ...