The penguins were intrigued, perhaps for good reason. Dressed head to toe in sterile personal protective gear, three ...

There is no shortage of penguin poop in Antarctica. In fact, you can see it from space, if you know where to look. Researchers often use satellite observations to study Adélie penguin populations and ...

Scientists find that ammonia wafting from all that guano kicks off an atmospheric chain reaction.

A team of scientists have recently returned from a research trip to Antarctica where they were collecting penguin poo 'guano' from lake sediment ...

In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth: Marambio Station at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where the icy continent ...

In the ever-advancing field of global science, you might think that discovering animal poop in satellite imagery would be of little consequence. But for a research team studying Antarctica, making ...