According to a comprehensive modeling study, the climate benefits of contrail avoidance depend on speed, not perfection ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s what you should know about contrails, according to an aviation meteorologist. pic4you/Getty Images If you’ve ever looked up ...

A new study allays fears that rerouting flights to avoid forming climate-warming contrails could result in inadvertently making climate warming worse. Researchers from Sorbonne Universite and the ...

Contrails are clouds made of ice particles, which can be created when airplanes fly through cold, humid air. Persistent contrails are estimated to have a warming climate impact. Flight tests will ...

If you’ve ever looked up at a mostly blue sky and seen straight white lines criss-crossing the horizon, or watched a plane puff out a plume as it passed above, you may have wondered, “what causes that ...

The challenge of addressing aviation’s non-carbon dioxide emissions is receiving greater attention, with the climatic impact associated with tell-tale signs in the sky coming under increased study.

Florida has banned "geoengineering," or weather modification, in response to conspiracy theories about "chemtrails." Scientists explain that the white streaks behind jets, called contrails, are ice ...

Research team identifies common environmental conditions for the formation of contrails and provides initial insights into their impact on the climate. Long-lived contrails form predominantly not in ...

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