Isolation, frigid temperatures and old food are small prices to pay for the opportunity to do research in Antarctica.

While the presence of algae in Antarctica was noted by long-ago expeditions, such as the one by British explorer Ernest Shackleton, its full extent was unknown. Antarctica conjures images of an ...

The penguin poop didn’t only influence krill movements. In another phase of the experiment, researchers noticed the ...

Picture: Peter Harmsen/Australian Antarctic Division Poo, or guano, from Adelie penguins was collected and fed into man-made ...

The foul stench of penguin poop sets Antarctic krill on edge. In lab experiments, the mere scent of penguin droppings — or guano — sent krill scrambling for escape, researchers report March 20 in ...

Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest ... volumes of methane from beneath the ice to the ... Resilient Algae May Speed Up Greenland Ice Melt Feb. 19, 2025 — New research ...

The study suggests that even the faintest hint of penguin droppings in the water is enough to prompt krill into escape ...

Experts have revealed Antarctica is “more vulnerable” than previously feared, as a new map reveals what lays under the ice. The estimates, created by Bedmap3, have also re-evaluated the ...