Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) belong to the penguin family Spheniscidae. They also go by the name brush-tailed ...

The world’s first penguin biologist to study a large colony of the animals up close, George Murray Levick, was marooned in ...

They noticed that when the wind blew from the direction of a 60,000-individual Adelie penguin colony ... effects of climate change on the penguins’ own habitat of Antarctica.

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

There is no shortage of penguin poop in Antarctica ... regional cloud formation that halts ice loss and protects their habitat. “There are connections between things that happen on our natural ...

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

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

Ammonia released from penguin guano may help to reduce the effects of climate change in Antarctica by contributing to ...

Millions more Adélie penguins may be marching across Antarctica ... Antarctica's melting ice will reduce the seabirds' swath of viable habitat, while warmer and more acidic oceans could hamper ...

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