What’s one way to help preserve the Antarctic climate? Penguin poop.

What’s one way to help preserve the Antarctic climate? Penguin poop.

Ammonia aerosols from penguin guano can help form heat-shielding clouds around the cold continent.

The guano of local birds, particularly loaded with nitrogen, directly impacts the formation of clouds over this continent so important for global climate dynamics.

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Penguin Droppings May Be Seeding Clouds, Study Finds

Penguin droppings may play a role in the formation of clouds over Antarctica, new research finds. Penguins produce an enormous volume of excrement, or guano, so much that last year four colonies of emperor penguins were discovered after researchers spotted their droppings in satellite images. Such massive quantities of guano are a major source of […]