LYON—Thales and France-based carrier Amelia are scaling up their collaboration on preventing the formation of condensation trails, or contrails, as Amelia will apply prevention measures to every ...

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 ...

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 ...

American Airlines and Google said Thursday that they significantly reduced the climate impact of some of the airline's flights using an AI-based forecasting tool to help prevent contrails. When ...

Whenever there’s a conversation involving aviation and climate change, carbon emissions usually take centre stage. But Google says there’s another less obvious problem, which might be just as ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and General Electric Aerospace have completed a week of joint testing to better understand how contrails form and behave over time. GE's Boeing ...

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 ...