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An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...
The ammonia from Adélie penguin guano reacts with sulfur-containing gases in the atmosphere to aid in forming clouds, which ...
A little-known ocean current surrounds Antarctica, shielding it from warm water farther north. But our new research published ...
Previous models have found clouds fueled by seabird guano in the Arctic do cool the ground, but the study authors say ...
The researchers further demonstrated that the ammonia kicks off an atmospheric chain reaction. Out at sea, tiny plantlike ...
Huge colonies of penguins in Antarctica fill the air with ammonia, which stabilises particles in the atmosphere that allow ...
According to the team, the data suggests that penguin poop may be helping reduce some of climate change’s effects on an ...
When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now ...
The ancient Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in the middle of East Antarctica are entombed beneath kilometres of ice ...
Antarctica may appear to be an endless expanse of ice, but beneath its frozen surface lies a complex and dramatic landscape ...
Scientists say they’ve seen ammonia emitted from penguin poop result in the creation of fog. The clouds created may be ...
Social media posts are claiming to disprove the effects of climate change in Antarctica by comparing the amount of sea ice ...