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Penguins in Antarctica could actually be helping cool the climate. New research shows they can influence how clouds form ...
According to the team, the data suggests that penguin poop may be helping reduce some of climate change’s effects on an ...
In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth: Marambio Station at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where the icy continent ...
Previous models have found clouds fueled by seabird guano in the Arctic do cool the ground, but the study authors say ...
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 ...
Scientists say they’ve seen ammonia emitted from penguin poop result in the creation of fog. The clouds created may be ...
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 ...
Huge colonies of penguins in Antarctica fill the air with ammonia, which stabilises particles in the atmosphere that allow climate-cooling clouds to form ...
LAUREN SOMMER, BYLINE: At the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, there's a colony of 60,000 Adelie penguins. MATTHEW BOYER: When you approach it, you're not really ready to see the scale of the ...
In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth: Marambio Station at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where the icy ...