When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images Commercial airplanes have made strides in reducing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Planes leaving contrails The world’s largest airlines are urging Brussels to reconsider plans to monitor contrails, as they claim ...

I would like to respond to a letter by Wendy Connor regarding aircraft contrails. This notion about geo-engineering, mind-control chemicals being sprayed, etc. is the result of Idaho's notoriously bad ...

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 ...

Modern aircraft are producing longer-lasting contrails that warm the planet faster than those created by older aircraft, presenting a "double whammy" for the aviation industry's carbon reduction ...

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 ...

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 ...

Matthias Tesche received funding from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) to pursue this research. You don’t have to live near an airport to be familiar with condensation trails, or ...

THERE are few more delightful antidotes to stress than to lie on your back in warm grass and watch the clouds go by. As children, we love finding the outlines of animals and castles in the billowing ...

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 ...

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.

When it comes to vehicles that have a serious impact on the environment, we all immediately think of gas-burning cars and trucks, but passenger aircraft can have a significant impact on the ...