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 ...

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 ...

Daily Memo: Cut Contrails Before It’s Too Late, Research Study Says is published in Aviation Daily, an Aviation Week ...

A Singapore Airlines airplane drawing a contrail in the sky over Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, on January 21, 2017. The research analyzed satellite data of more than 64,000 contrails ...

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 ...

Contrails trap heat in the atmosphere, which in turn warms the planet. Private jets, already heavily scrutinized for high carbon emissions, represent a big part of the contrail problem.

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.

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 ...

Researchers from Imperial College London found that condensation trails, or contrails, created by aircraft exhaust fumes trap heat in the atmosphere. As a result, these thin cloud streaks have a ...

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 ...