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

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 ...

Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth: Marambio Station at the ...

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

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

New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the formation and persistence of low clouds, which cool the climate by ...

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 ...

Previous models have found clouds fueled by seabird guano in the Arctic do cool the ground, but the study authors say ...

Penguin droppings release ammonia that forms clouds, affecting Antarctica's climate and potentially slowing warming.

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