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.

Contrails are the visible lines left in the sky behind aircraft when warm jet-engine exhaust meets the colder surrounding atmosphere, forming small ice crystals. Most contrails dissipate within about ...

Still, claims of weather-control technology, once confined to relatively fringe circles, have gained some traction in the ...

Condensation trails or contrails — the white, feathery lines behind airplanes — could have as big an impact on the climate as the aviation sector's CO2 emissions. Here's why and what we can do ...

Policy Watch: From contrails to e-fuels, how a UK-led coalition is helping plot a flightpath to greener aviation By Angeli Mehta July 8, 202410:20 AM PDTUpdated July 9, 2024 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contrails—those cloudy tracks laid across the sky by jet planes—have a noteworthy effect on the local climate below, new research shows. A study recently published in the International Journal of ...

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.