Ammonia from penguin poop increases cloud cover in Antarctica, reflecting sunlight and cooling the area. This natural process ...

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 ...

A new study published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment reveals that penguins might also be helping to form ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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