A crazy cold week in Florida brings starker contrails. But it's just winter conspiring against us, not the feds trying to ...

Enter the Arizona Legislature. A series of bills introduced this session aim to ban any effort to spray or inject any ...

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Those white vapor trails crisscrossing the sky carry a hidden climate price tag comparable to the damage from jet fuel itself. Research from Chalmers University of Technology reveals that aviation ...

If you look up at the sky on a clear day, chances are you'll notice thin, white clouds—also known as contrails—following behind airplanes. The formation of these wispy ice clouds is a complex process ...

Should you be scared of jet contrails, the white streaks billowing across the sky? John Lin, an associate professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Utah, sat down with City Weekly to set ...

Contrails form when hot exhaust gas from an aircraft’s engine mixes with the cold air at an altitude of about 10 kilometres. In dry air, most contrails dissipate quickly. In cold, humid air, however, ...

Aviation's climate impact is partly due to contrails—condensation that a plane streaks across the sky when it flies through icy and humid layers of the atmosphere. Contrails trap heat that radiates ...

The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a committee to develop a national research agenda to understand better, quantify, and support the development of technical and ...

Four research figures show how contrails appear in two satellite views (left) and two photographs taken from the MIT Green Building. Aviation’s climate impact is partly due to contrails — condensation ...