In Antarctica, penguin poop, or guano, can cover the ground for miles, especially around penguin colonies with thousands of individuals. In fact, large, brown guano stains on Antarctica’s white ice ...

Chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarcticus) penguins at Deception Island, in the western Antarctic Peninsula. Penguins in Antarctica, a region on the front line of climate change, are adapting by shifting ...

Changing temperatures may be behind change in behaviour, which experts fear threatens three species’ survival Penguins in Antarctica have radically shifted their breeding season, apparently as a ...

Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian photojournalist whose black-and-white prints capture natural environments and the people who inhabit them. He uses his images as a means of promoting preservation, as ...

Anyone who has ever been deeply sleep-deprived is probably familiar with microsleep. Microsleep occurs when you fall asleep for only a few seconds. For humans, these are involuntary sleep bursts ...

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Penguin guano could be an unexpected ally in the fight against Antarctic climate change. Researchers discovered that ammonia emissions from Adélie penguin colonies contribute to cloud formation, which ...

Image: 20 x 14.75 in. (50.8 x 37.46 cm.) Please be advised that due to recent global shipping events, there may be fulfillment delays during the post-sale process. Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian ...

Antarctica hosts an array of life, from the vast oceans teeming with fish to the waddling, plump penguins that fish in the waters. New evidence suggests that Adélie penguins have deeper ties to the ...

Ammonia released from penguin guano may help to reduce the effects of climate change in the Antarctic by contributing to increased cloud formation, according to an analysis published in Communications ...

Adélie penguins may look like a bunch of bumbling cartoon characters, but they live under rules stricter than a gated community with too much free time and a neighborhood watch on steroids. There’s no ...