Reducing aircraft soot emissions may not reduce contrail clouds, according to in-flight observations of emissions from a ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Overview." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Developing a Research Agenda on Contrails and Their Climate Impacts. Washington, DC: The National ...

From the development of new materials that make airplanes lighter to the exploration of alternative fuels, the aviation industry is making strides toward reducing its carbon footprint. One aspect of ...

Aviation’s climate impact extends beyond carbon dioxide emissions. A new study from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Imperial College, UK, reveals that ...

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 ...

Aviation’s impact on global warming could be reduced by nearly half by making small changes to aircraft flight paths to avoid ...

BRUSSELS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Legal analysis carried out by Cornerstone Barristers concludes that countries must include non-CO2 emissions - which account for at least half of aviation’s climate impact - ...

In the skies over Hampton Roads it is common to see contrails, cloud-like strips of condensed water left behind by aircrafts at high altitude. Some dissipate within minutes, but depending on the ...

A trial involving thousands of flights between the US and Europe has found that planes produce fewer contrails if they follow flight paths recommended by an artificial intelligence to reduce their ...

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 ...

Assuming that the radiative forcing impact of aviation-induced contrails is sufficiently strong to justify mitigation measures, it is likely that operational strategies that avoid flying through ...

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 ...