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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The clouds in Antarctica might be fueled by penguin poop. Penguin poop - sorry, penguin guano - is creating clouds in ...

Matthew Boyer will defend his PhD thesis titled “Sources of Atmospherically Relevant Aerosol in the Polar Regions” on Wednesday, June 18th at 12:00 in Physicum Auditorium E204 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu ...