The ammonia from Adélie penguin guano reacts with sulfur-containing gases in the atmosphere to aid in forming clouds, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Journey to the breathtaking Tabarin Peninsula, a remote and icy wonderland at the northernmost tip of Antarctica. Experience ...

At Roger Williams Park Zoo, the penguins will eat 1 to 1½ pounds of fish daily over two or three feedings. They will be fed ...

Penguin poop, also known as guano, is notoriously smelly. But the ammonia in the birds’ excrement does more than just stink—it can play a role in cloud formation over Antarctica. Those clouds ...

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

When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now ...

The date was picked in connection with Adélie penguins’ northward migration in Antarctica. Penguins are excellent swimmers, using wings as flippers. They can be found in diverse climates ...