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 ...

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

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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 ...

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.

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

Penguin poop may be playing a key role in keeping climate change in check over Antarctica, new research published May 22 ...

Antarctica’s number one cutest animal might ... The penguins act as “major emitters” of this ammonia, lead author Matthew Boyer explains. “There is a deep connection between ecosystem ...

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

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