First author Matthew Boyer piloting a drone for data collection in Antarctica. Zoe Brasseur Penguins, a key species in Antarctica, are "major emitters" of ammonia, according to the paper.

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

Matthew Boyer, a researcher at the University of Helsinki's Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research and lead author of the paper, told ABC News. "They have a synergistic role for the ...

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 ...

Ammonia from penguin guano boosts cloud formation, potentially helping Antarctica resist climate change. Ammonia from penguin ...

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 ...

The ammonia from Adélie penguin guano reacts with sulfur-containing gases in the atmosphere to aid in forming clouds, which scientists say may be significant to regulating the climate ...

“I’m constantly surprised at the depth of how one small change affects everything else,” said Matthew Boyer, a coauthor of the new study and an atmospheric scientist at the University of ...

"It's quite interesting how such a small thing that you would never necessarily think about can have an impact on something else that's much bigger than itself," says Matthew Boyer, an atmospheric ...

MATTHEW BOYER: When you approach it, you're not really ready to see the scale of the actual number of birds, but you can smell it from a long way away. SOMMER: That's Matthew Boyer, an atmospheric ...