The link between clouds and penguin poop is not an obvious one but it has important implications for climate change. New ...

Ammonia from penguin poop increases cloud cover in Antarctica, reflecting sunlight and cooling the area. This natural process ...

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

Scientists find that ammonia wafting off the droppings of 60,000 birds contributed to the formation of clouds that might be insulating Antarctica, helping cool down an otherwise rapidly warming ...

For the first time, Antarctic krill have been found on seafloor vents. One scientist is working to figure out what they are ...

A new study published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment reveals that penguins might also be helping to form ...

A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried beneath ice, rock and mud after a massive piece of a nearby glacier collapsed. On ...

Researchers say more than a fifth of the planet’s ocean — which makes up 70 percent of the surface of the Earth — has been subject to the darkening process over the course of the past two decades.

Relying on science, history, and Indigenous knowledge, Jay Griffiths offers an inspiring restorative vision of health in ...

Joanna Sokol shares sometimes poignant, sometimes absurd, and always very human stories in her new memoir, A Real Emergency.

Penguins in Antarctica could actually be helping cool the climate. New research shows they can influence how clouds form thanks to all their waste.