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 ...

Melting glaciers in Antarctica are causing sea levels to ... on something else that's much bigger than itself," says Matthew Boyer, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Helsinki, who ...

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

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 ...

Scientists find that ammonia wafting off the droppings of 60,000 birds contributed to the formation of clouds that might be insulating Antarctica, helping cool down an otherwise rapidly warming ...

An international team of researchers has found that penguin defecation slows down temperature rise in Antarctica.

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 ...

Scientists say they’ve seen ammonia emitted from penguin poop result in the creation of fog. The clouds created may be ...

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

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

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 ...