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

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

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

Some penguin populations, however, are under serious threat because of climate change. Losing them and their guano could mean fewer clouds and more heating in an already fragile e ...

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

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

New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the formation and persistence of low clouds, which cool the climate by ...

Previous models have found clouds fueled by seabird guano in the Arctic do cool the ground, but the study authors say observations are needed to confirm the effect on the climate.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...