Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Contrails — the white line-shaped clouds left behind by planes — pose a particular problem as they are able to trap heat. Julian ...

Modern commercial aircraft flying at high altitudes create longer-lived planet-warming contrails than older aircraft, a new study has found. The result means that although modern planes emit less ...

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Airlines have tamped down on carbon emissions by flying planes at higher altitudes. But this comes at a cost: the higher-flying aircraft are creating more contrails that last longer, worsening the ...

Of the varied conspiracy theories regarding contrails – you know, chemtrails – one stands out for being especially wrong: the belief that the plane-made clouds are chemicals the government is secretly ...

On a clear day, with the right weather conditions, a portion of the sky busy with commercial flights can become riddled with contrails, the wispy ice clouds that form as jet aircraft fly by. They ...

Aviation is responsible for about 2.5 percent of global CO2 emissions, but its overall contribution to climate change is higher because of non-CO2 impacts such as contrails. New aircraft may be ...

Efforts to understand and mitigate aviation’s non-CO 2 emission effects have focused on contrails, one of the most visible signs of aviation’s impact on the Earth’s atmosphere. Contrails form through ...

The warming effect of aeroplane contrails on Earth’s climate could increase threefold by 2050, according to new research done by Lisa Bock and Ulrike Burkhardt at the German Aerospace Centre in ...

It's no secret that the world is facing a climate crisis, and that businesses are looking at ways to limit their carbon footprint, in a bid to help lower greenhouse gas emissions amid the harsh ...

Immediately after four hijacked airliners slammed into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Federal Aviation Administration shut down all U.S.