Newly published research shows that clouds fueled by penguin poop could help fight climate change in the Antarctic.

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

The conclusion is the result of measurements taken by scientists downwind of a colony of Adelie penguins in Antarctica in ...

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

Ammonia from the birds’ guano can mix with other gases and form clouds, potentially cooling Earth’s surface and preserving ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weird way that penguin poop might be cooling Antarctica on ...

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 ...

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

New study finds that ammonia aerosols from penguin guano likely play an important part in the formation of heat-shielding ...