Some contrails can contribute to global warming. Contrails—pure ice clouds (“cirrus”) that form from aircraft exhaust under specific cold conditions—can trap heat in the atmosphere, sometimes creating ...

Contrails appeared over Bass Strait on Friday morning. But what are contrails and how do they form?

Contrails – short for condensation trails – are linear clouds made up of ice crystals that form behind jet aircraft at high altitudes. These artificial cirrus clouds are formed when hot and moist ...

One of the biggest causes of climate change remains the airline industry. Now, AI is working to help. Traveling by air is a ...

How can an aircraft’s contrails, which are artificial ice clouds formed from hot engines and cold altitudes, contribute to climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

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 ...