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

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...

Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...

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

A little-known ocean current surrounds Antarctica, shielding it from warm water farther north. But our new research published ...

The ammonia from Adélie penguin guano reacts with sulfur-containing gases in the atmosphere to aid in forming clouds, which ...

The researchers further demonstrated that the ammonia kicks off an atmospheric chain reaction. Out at sea, tiny plantlike ...

The Antarctica ice sheet saw accelerating loss of mass over 20 years, but then the trend suddenly reversed say scientists. So, what happened?

The sea ice in Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound has held secrets beneath its surface for decades. Now, scientists have unlocked ...

The authors argue that further warming to 1.5°C would likely generate several metres of sea level rise over the coming ...

An international team of researchers has found that penguin defecation slows down temperature rise in Antarctica.