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

Green snow algae on the Antarctic Peninsula held ten times the phosphate of red snow, and penguin guano is the likely source ...

Penguin poop is fertilizing snow algae blooms along the Antarctic Peninsula, feeding dense green algae patches along the ...

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 ...

The findings come as Antarctica continues to lose ice amid changing environmental conditions.

Snow algae can produce striking red or green patches across the Antarctic landscape, depending on their growing conditions.

Much of the country has been dealing with colder-than-normal winter temperatures and above-average snowfall recently. While winter storm Fern may have had many of us humans bundled up under warm ...