New research finds that Adelie penguin guano releases ammonia, which helps create clouds that protect Antarctica from climate ...

However, an Adelie penguin is most at home not on land but in the water. They frequently swim at speeds around 5 miles per hour but can move between 25 and 30 miles per hour for short bursts ...

Scientists say they’ve seen ammonia emitted from penguin poop result in the creation of fog. The clouds created may be helping to shield the animals from the effects of human-caused climate change ...

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

Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis ... around which water vapor could condense and form clouds. For the first time, a link between penguin poop and cloud formation had been established.

Penguin poop, also known as guano ... In turn, those aerosol particles provide a surface for water vapor to condense upon and form clouds. “There are connections between things that happen ...

Ammonia can increase cloud formation by reacting with gases containing sulphur to increase the creation of aerosols — particles which give water vapor a surface to condense upon, leading to ...

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

According to the paper, published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, the penguin droppings created a concentration of ammonia 1000 times higher than usual. Even after the penguins migrated ...

New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the formation and persistence of low clouds, which cool the climate by ...