The ammonia from Adélie penguin guano reacts with sulfur-containing gases in the atmosphere to aid in forming clouds, which ...

Ammonia from penguin poop increases cloud cover in Antarctica, reflecting sunlight and cooling the area. This natural process ...

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

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 ...

A new study published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment reveals that penguins might also be helping to form ...

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

Penguin poop, also known as guano, is notoriously smelly. But the ammonia in the birds’ excrement does more than just stink—it can play a role in cloud formation over Antarctica. Those clouds ...

Animal Pride, a documentary from The Nature of Things, brings these findings into the spotlight. "We've all heard the rhetoric that being queer isn't natural," says naturalist and presenter Connel ...

At Roger Williams Park Zoo, the penguins will eat 1 to 1½ pounds of fish daily over two or three feedings. They will be fed ...

Oceanwide Expeditions has announced that the company is launching snorkeling as a new activity on sailings in Antarctica. The ...

When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now ...