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 ...

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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Modern aircraft are producing longer-lasting contrails that warm the planet faster than those created by older aircraft, ...

Since the dawn of commercial jet travel, the uninformed masses have looked up at the skies and assumed the vapor trailing off of airliners was the government covertly spraying chemicals over 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 ...

In a wide-ranging report, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) has laid out a set of research priorities for NASA to help achieve its goal of reducing ...

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Delta Air Lines said Thursday it will work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a study examining the environmental impact of airplane contrails. The focus of the study is how to ...

Taking a day flight could be a swift way to limit the climate impact of a holiday, as new research suggests vapour trails produced by jets can cool the planet during the daytime. Soot particles ...

Long-lived contrails form predominantly not in cloud-free skies, but within already existing ice clouds. This is the conclusion reached by a team of scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich, the ...