Reducing aircraft soot emissions may not reduce contrail clouds, according to in-flight observations of emissions from a passenger jet with modern "lean-burn" engines, reported in Nature. Contrails ...

From the top of a plane wing, another airplane is seen flying above clouds in a blue sky, leaving a contrail in its wake. In spring 2023, scientists aboard a research aircraft chased an Airbus A321neo ...

Aviation plays a vital part for mankind, industry and economy and the transport of goods and people. Aircraft also contribute to climate change mainly by carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions and by ...

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 ...

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 contrail clouds formed by jet engines contribute to global warming. In-flight measurements of the particles emitted and contrails produced by a passenger jet show that contrails are formed through ...

aircraft with contrail forming behind it across a blue sky - Maksim Mikhailov /Getty Images There is an ongoing theory that the white cloud-like lines left behind by high-flying aircraft are actually ...

Look up at the clear sky on any given afternoon, and the visual asymmetry of modern air travel becomes immediately obvious. One commercial airliner leaves a thick, bright white plume slicing through ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (April 14, 2026) — Fangqun Yu, a senior research faculty member at the University at Albany’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, has been studying the microphysics of contrail ...

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 ...