Still, claims of weather-control technology, once confined to relatively fringe circles, have gained some traction in the Republican Party. In some states, conservative politicians have passed laws ...

For whatever reason, many weather conspiracy theories have crawled out of the fringes and into mainstream discussions. Over ...

Administrator Lee Zeldin said Thursday that Americans have “legitimate questions” about airplane contrails as his agency launches webpages aimed at combatting misinformation on the topic. Contrails, ...

Passenger aircraft contribute significantly to global warming, primarily due to the large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) ...

Condensation trails left by higher-flying, lower-carbon aircraft are proving to be disruptive across North America.

Airlines have tamped down on carbon emissions by flying planes at higher altitudes. But this comes at a cost: the higher-flying aircraft are creating more contrails that last longer, worsening the ...

American Airlines, Google say they can wipe out most contrails but more fuel required Fuel use on contrail-producing flights could increase by about 2%, according to AA and Google Research’s ...

Reducing contrails alone won’t solve aviation’s climate-change problem. Air travel is responsible for about 3.5 percent of human-caused warming, according to the National Oceanic and ...

Contrails form the easiest at altitudes where planes fly the most efficiently because the air is thin. But whether or not a plane makes contrails depends on a variety of factors, including ...

Contrails form when soot in jet exhaust attracts water vapor, cools, and forms long-lasting ice crystals. If there is some wind, the contrails will spread out into cloud-like formations, and if it ...

The more we fly, the worse it will get. Contrails, those white ribbons jets leave behind in the sky, will exacerbate global warming in the next few decades, a new study published Thursday suggests.

A plane that is producing contrails could immediately stop producing them if they were to fly slightly higher or lower. In fact, an altitude change of just a couple of thousand feet can make the ...