Penguin poop, also known as guano, is notoriously smelly. But the ammonia in the birds’ excrement does more than just ...

Penguins could be playing a crucial role in stabilizing the climate in Antarctica when they go No. 2, according to new ...

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

Newly published research shows that clouds fueled by penguin poop could help fight climate change in the Antarctic.

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

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

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

This shift was enough to increase aerosol particle concentrations by 10,000 times and form fog associated with visible clouds ...

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.

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