Penguin poop, also known as guano, is notoriously smelly. But the ammonia in the birds’ excrement does more than just ...

New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists say they’ve seen ammonia emitted from penguin poop result in the creation of fog. The clouds created may be ...

The world’s first penguin biologist to study a large colony of the animals up close, George Murray Levick, was marooned in ...

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

Ammonia released from penguin guano may help to reduce the effects of climate change in Antarctica by contributing to ...

Animal Pride, a documentary from The Nature of Things, brings these findings into the spotlight. "We've all heard the rhetoric that being queer isn't natural," says naturalist and presenter Connel ...

An international team of researchers has found that penguin defecation slows down temperature rise in Antarctica.