Scientists have found that penguin poo, called guano, can cause Antarctic snow to melt at a faster than normal rate.

Researchers find the birds’ guano feeds algal blooms that absorb significantly more solar energy ...

Crappy feet. While humans might be mostly to blame for Antarctica’s snow melt, scientists are pointing to another surprising source of the a-thaw-calypse — penguin poop. Per the study in the Journal ...

Penguin droppings across Antarctica release about 540,000 U.S. tons of methane a year, a study of chinstrap colonies on ...

The penguins that perished lived on the Danger Islands in Antarctica. The prime suspect was avian flu. Researchers were ...

Antarctic penguins are breeding earlier than ever recorded, with gentoo penguins showing the most dramatic shifts as warming accelerates along the Antarctic Peninsula. Earlier breeding can create ...

Now, only 124 years since this penguin colony was discovered, emperor penguins have officially been listed as endangered, along with the Antarctic fur seal. As the world warms, Antarctic krill are ...

ANTARCTICA (WJW) – The emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal are now considered endangered, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species announced. The organization changed the emperor penguin's ...

The Antarctic krill fishery has reached its annual catch threshold for the second consecutive year, raising concerns over ...

Soil bacteria in Antarctica are unique: 90 percent of the Arthrobacter strains found there turned up in no other soil sampled ...