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

Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) belong to the penguin family Spheniscidae. They also go by the name brush-tailed ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ammonia released from Antarctic colonies helps form clouds that deflect sunlight and lower temperatures, study finds ...