Too much penguin poop in Antarctica is accelerating snow melt and rising sea levels: study

Crappy feet. While humans might be mostly to blame for Antarctica’s snow melt, scientists are pointing to another surprising ...

Researchers Reveal How Penguin Poop Could Be Contributing to Snow Melt in Antarctica

Snow algae thrive around penguin poop, a study suggests ...

Meet the 17-year-old student engineering bacteria to slow Arctic ice melt

Justin Bernstein, a 17-year-old student from Greenwich, Connecticut, developed a research project on glacial ice preservation ...

Penguin poop is melting Antarctic snow by keeping algae green

Penguin poop is fertilizing snow algae blooms along the Antarctic Peninsula, feeding dense green algae patches along the ...
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Faster Antarctic model brings ocean-driven ice shelf melting into sharper focus

Version 2.0 of the open-source LADDIE model simulates detailed Antarctic ice shelf melting at two-kilometre continental ...
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Blood Snow on the Move: The Biophysics of How Algae Swim Through Melting Snowpacks

A new review synthesises the biophysics of how snow algae swim, sense and migrate through melting snowpacks, with major ...
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How does snow melt when temperatures are still below freezing?

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Snowfall and cold temperatures are familiar parts of winter, but sometimes — even when the thermometer reads below freezing — snow and ice still melt. Meteorologists say this ...