Crappy feet. While humans might be mostly to blame for Antarctica’s snow melt, scientists are pointing to another surprising ...
Snow algae thrive around penguin poop, a study suggests ...
Penguins are messy, gathering in dense huddles where their guano (aka poop) piles up on the ice. In fact, their poop piles are so dense that they show up on satellite images. And the guano stains ...
Version 2.0 of the open-source LADDIE model simulates detailed Antarctic ice shelf melting at two-kilometre continental ...
Penguin poop is fertilizing snow algae blooms along the Antarctic Peninsula, feeding dense green algae patches along the ...
Switzerland’s glaciers lost more than 5 percent of their ice in a single year, with record melt, disappearing glaciers, and ...
A new review synthesises the biophysics of how snow algae swim, sense and migrate through melting snowpacks, with major ...
Snow molds are species of fungi that grow under the snow. When the snow melts, it can release spores into the air, which some people are allergic to. A snow mold allergy can look similar to a pollen ...
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 ...