If you look up in the sky during a sunny day, you might see long, skinny looking clouds coming from behind planes. Those are contrails, short for ‘condensation trails.’ Airplane engines produce them ...

Scientific debate is getting heated over what to do about airplane contrails—the wispy lines of water vapor you often see trailing behind a jet. Those harmless-looking vapor trails sometimes spread ...

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 ...

A new study allays fears that rerouting flights to avoid forming climate-warming contrails could result in inadvertently making climate warming worse. A new study allays fears that rerouting flights ...

A long airplane contrail cuts through cirrus clouds. Contrails contribute to global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere. Photo Credit: TinaSova20/Shutterstock.com Altering flight plans to avoid ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — There have been all kinds of theories about jet contrails over the years. In reality, they have a very simple scientific explanation. You will often see a white streak trailing ...

June 27 (UPI) --Under certain conditions, airplane contrails become contrail cirrus, icy clouds that trap the sun's heat and warms the planet. New research suggests the climate impact of airplane ...

Feb. 12 (UPI) --To reduce the impacts of air travel on Earth's climate, only slight flight plan adjustments are necessary. According to a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Environmental ...

Adam Durant ’06 ’07 joins physics professor Raymond Shaw to discuss green aviation and how updating flight plans to prevent long-lasting contrails can reduce climate impacts. It’s not rocket science.