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It sure would be nice to control the weather.
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You could guarantee you'd always have a sunny day for a picnic
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or call down some rain if your garden's looking a little dry, but we humans cannot do that because we are not penguins.
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Whether Antarctica gets nice sunny days or overcast skies might have a lot to do with its best dressed residents.
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Here is how penguins, and I am not joking, might control the weather.
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Penguin colonies in Antarctica can get pretty darn big.
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Many have tens or even hundreds of thousands of breeding pairs, and with a lot of penguins comes a lot of penguin poop.
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All of that poop gives off a gas called ammonia.
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You might know it as an ingredient in plant fertilizer, or things you can use to clean your bathroom, or pee.
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In fact, seabird poop is such a rich source of ammonia that back in the 19th century,
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people were mining entire islands for buildups of bird poop to bolster their crops.
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Not exactly a glamorous job.
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But in places like Antarctica, where no one's going in and messing with penguin droppings, the ammonia gets into the atmosphere.
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There, it can link up with other chemicals in the air and help form the earliest seeds of clouds.
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Clouds are mostly made of droplets of liquid water.
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In order for clouds to form, the gaseous water vapor in the atmosphere needs something to condense onto in order to become those droplets.
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That something could be a bit of dust or some soot from a fire, but it could also come from natural chemical reactions that occur in the atmosphere.
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Sometimes when different gases get together, they can link up and form a tiny solid or liquid particle.
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At first, those little particles aren't big enough to start forming clouds on their own, but over time, they can grow into bigger particles.
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They don't even have to get all that big.
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Once the particles get to be a few dozen nanometers in diameter, they become cloud condensation nuclei.
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Those are particles big enough for water vapor to start condensing on them.
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Just for context, the particles only need to be about a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.
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Why do we always use width of a human hair as the comparison?
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Folks, there's gotta be something else.
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In Antarctica, many of the particles
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that go on to become cloud condensation nuclei are thought to start as clusters containing sulfuric acid and ammonia.
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They can also contain chemicals called amines, which are related to ammonia among others.
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The sulfuric acid mainly comes from microorganisms in the ocean.
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Phytoplankton emits something called dimethyl sulfide, which reacts to become sulfuric acid.
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And the ammonia comes in large part from penguin poop.
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Normally there would be other compounds in the atmosphere forming these tiny starter particles too.
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They might be things like decaying plant matter or industrial emissions.
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But there really isn't much of that in Antarctica.
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It is the world's largest desert after all.
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So ammonia from penguin guano or penguin poop ends up playing a big role in cloud formation.
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Now we've known about this for a while.
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So, studies have linked this particle formation to ammonia from penguin colonies since 1998,
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and more recent research has presented an idea for exactly how those particles form.
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But as it turns out, these poop-based specks could impact cloud cover over much of Antarctica, and maybe help keep the entire continent cool.
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But before we talk about why, all science needs funding, so let's go to a quick break.
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Thanks to JUMP Statistical Discovery for supporting this SciShow video.
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If you've ever had trouble finding the interesting result in a huge dataset, you're not alone.
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It can be really hard to see the forest for the trees.
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That is why JUMP exists.
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JUMP helps scientists turn messy, complex data into something they can visually explore and understand.
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But it's still you working with the data.
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and start your journey into data visualization and exploratory analysis.
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You don't need to be an expert statistician to get started.
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It's designed for scientists, engineers, and curious learners alike.
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You can check out the free workshop at the link in the description. In a 2025 study,
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a team of researchers set up equipment to monitor ammonia levels at an Antarctic research station near two penguin colonies.
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They found that airborne ammonia concentrations were higher when the wind blew in from the direction of the penguin colonies,
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and they only saw new particles forming when the wind came from that direction too.
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Along with ammonia, the team also spotted a chemical called dimethylamine.
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Even a little bit of dimethylamine can help speed up the formation of those ammonia sulfuric acid particles.
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And good thing for the scientists there wasn't a lot, cause dimethylamine smells like rotting fish.
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Yummy!
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The scientists weren't able to confirm the source of the dimethylamine, but much like with the ammonia, they saw more dimethylamine when winds came from the direction of the penguins.
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That's not entirely surprising.
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Penguin guano can produce amines, so it makes sense that dimethylamine could have come from penguin poop just like ammonia.
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So lots of penguin poop means lots of these little particles that can contribute to cloud formation.
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That was true even after the penguins left the colony site on their annual migration.
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Ammonia levels stayed high for more than a month after the penguins took off, but not literally took off because they don't fly.
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A separate study from 2024 also suggests
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that ammonia levels in the air from penguin guano could spike
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when temperatures fluctuate above and below freezing over the course of the day.
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Ammonia itself doesn't last very long once it's in the atmosphere, but those particles it makes with sulfuric acid do.
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The particles could end up getting blown elsewhere on the continent, so penguin poop could affect cloud cover far from their homes.
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Extra cloud cover could help keep Antarctica cool in the face of climate disaster, but we need more research to figure out exactly how that will play out.
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Clouds reflect some of the light and heat from the sun back out into space, which could help keep temperatures low.
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On the other hand, clouds also lock in some of the heat
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that makes it through and prevent it from escaping the atmosphere.
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To make things even more complicated, climate disaster is already causing some penguin populations to shrink.
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Fewer penguins means less penguin poop, which could then mean fewer clouds.
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Even though we don't understand their effects yet, This is a strong argument for protecting penguin populations.
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They might protect a whole continent in turn.
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So it looks like to really understand and manage climate change in Antarctica,
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we'll need some help from these funny little guys in suits who like to tap dance and also surf.

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Video này có 81 câu và 1193 từ để luyện shadowing. Phần lời nói dài 6:56. Người nói nói với tốc độ tự nhiên, khoảng 172 từ mỗi phút, gần với hội thoại hằng ngày. Chỉ 76% số từ nằm trong 3.000 từ tiếng Anh thông dụng nhất, nên từ vựng khá khó.

Từ vựng quan trọng trong video

15 từ ít gặp trong video, kèm phiên âm và nghĩa:

  • penguin /ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪn/ (danh từ) — chim cánh cụt, chim cụt cánh. Any of several flightless sea birds, of the family Spheniscidae within the order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual…
  • particle /ˈpɑɹtək(ə)l/ (danh từ) — hạt. A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
  • cloud /ˈklaʊ̯d/ (danh từ) — mây. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
  • poop /ˈpuːp/ (danh từ) — phân. Fecal matter; feces.
  • atmosphere /ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/ (danh từ) — khí quyển. The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
  • acid /ˈæsɪd/ (danh từ) — axít. A sour substance.
  • scientist /ˈsaɪəntəst/ (danh từ) — nhà khoa học, khoa học gia. One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research…
  • continent /ˈkɑntɪnənt/ (danh từ) — đại lục, châu lục. One of the main contiguous landmasses, separated by water or geological features, on the surface of a planet, sometimes including its continental shelves and…
  • disaster /dɪˈzɑːs.təː/ (danh từ) — tai hoạ, thảm hoạ. An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent…
  • liquid /ˈlɪk.wɪd/ (danh từ) — nước, chất lỏng. A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those…
  • workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/ (danh từ) — xưởng. A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
  • sunny /ˈsʌni/ (tính từ) — nắng. Featuring a lot of sunshine.
  • width /ˈwɪtθ/ (danh từ) — chiều rộng. The state of being wide.
  • nucleus /ˈnuː.kli.əs/ (danh từ) — hạt nhân. The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled.
  • vapor /ˈveɪpɚ/ (danh từ) — hơi. Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.

Cụm động từ bạn sẽ nghe

  • come from (động từ) — đến từ, quê ở. To have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.
  • take off (động từ) — bỏ. To remove.
  • check out (động từ) — tính tiền, trả phòng. To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).

Phát âm cần chú ý

Người nói dùng 15 dạng rút gọn, ví dụ don't, aren't, doesn't. Hãy nói theo dạng ngắn đúng như bạn nghe.

  • Âm “th”: width /ˈwɪtθ/, dimethyl /daɪˈmɛ.θəl/
  • Âm “sh” và “zh”: workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, concentration /ˌkɑn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, migration /maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, emission /ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/, condensation /ˌkɒn.dɛnˈseɪ.ʃən/
  • Từ dài — đặt trọng âm cho đúng: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, concentration /ˌkɑn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, diameter /daɪˈæmɪdɚ/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/

Cách luyện với video này

  1. Nghe hết video một lần, chưa cần nói, và ghi lại những từ bạn chưa biết.
  2. Bắt đầu ở tốc độ 0,75×, nói đuổi từng câu, rồi quay lại tốc độ bình thường khi đã quen.
  3. Ghi âm giọng mình rồi so với bản gốc, chú ý các từ như penguin, particle, cloud.

Ngữ pháp trong video

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Cấu trúcTrong video
Thì hiện tại hoàn thành have/has + quá khứ phân từ — việc đã xảy ra nhưng còn liên quan đến hiện tạiwe've known · have linked · has presented
Câu bị động be + quá khứ phân từ — nhấn vào việc xảy ra, không phải người làmare thought · are related

Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?

Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.

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