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In places like Antarctica, small things can make a difference. Scientists are finding that penguin waste is helping form ...
Penguins could be playing a crucial role in stabilizing the climate in Antarctica when they go No. 2, according to new ...
When the wind blew from the direction of the colony, ammonia levels spiked, sometimes reaching 1,000 times above normal ...
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 ...
Scientists say they’ve seen ammonia emitted from penguin poop result in the creation of fog. The clouds created may be ...
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 ...
Huge colonies of penguins in Antarctica fill the air with ammonia, which stabilises particles in the atmosphere that allow climate-cooling clouds to form ...
A group of Adelie penguins standing on guano-covered snow. CREDIT: Matthew Boyer. Antarctic ecosystems are under serious threat due to human-driven climate change, with some penguin colonies ...
Penguins in Antarctica could actually be helping cool the climate. New research shows they can influence how clouds form ...
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 ...