In places like Antarctica, small things can make a difference. Scientists are finding that penguin waste is helping form ...

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

Antarctica, long seen as a pristine barometer of global climate health, is warming rapidly under the influence of human-driven climate change. But in an unexpected twist, researchers have identified a ...

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

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

Huge colonies of penguins in Antarctica fill the air with ammonia, which stabilises particles in the atmosphere that allow climate-cooling clouds to form ...

A group of Adelie penguins standing on guano-covered snow. CREDIT: Matthew Boyer. Antarctic ecosystems are under serious threat due to human-driven climate change, with some penguin colonies ...

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 ...

Penguins in Antarctica could actually be helping cool the climate. New research shows they can influence how clouds 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 ...