How pooliferation helps experts keep an eye on things like gentoofication
Using guano to track penguins in the South Pole, scientists say the birds are key to fathoming climate change there
01 February 2022 - 22:18
Peering through binoculars from an inflatable motorboat bobbing in frigid waters, polar ecology researchers Michael Wethington and Alex Borowicz scan a rocky outcrop on Antarctica’s Andersson Island for spatterings of red-brown guano that might signal a colony of penguins nearby...
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