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

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

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

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

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

According to the team, the data suggests that penguin poop may be helping reduce some of climate change’s effects on an ...

昨年９月のピーク時、南極の海氷面積は、観測史上２番目に小さい水準を記録した。科学者らは海洋の温暖化が南極に及ぼす影響を指摘しており、巨大な氷床が融解し始めた場合の重大な海面上昇リスクについて警告している。

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

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

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

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

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