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

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

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

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weird way that penguin poop might be cooling Antarctica on ...

According to the team, the data suggests that penguin poop may be helping reduce some of climate change’s effects on an ...

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

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.

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

Huge colonies of penguins in Antarctica fill the air with ammonia, which stabilises particles in the atmosphere that allow ...

The clouds in Antarctica might be fueled by penguin poop. Penguin poop - sorry, penguin guano - is creating clouds in ...