Here’s what you should know about contrails, according to an aviation meteorologist. pic4you/Getty Images If you’ve ever looked up at the sky and watched a plane fly by, you’ve probably noticed a long ...

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Delta Air Lines is collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to tackle the issue of persistent contrails. In recent years, passenger airlines have been making significant ...

The aviation sector’s burning of fossil fuels isn’t the only way it contributes to climate change: Contrails, the white clouds that trail behind airplanes, are known by researchers to trap heat from ...

Eliminating persistent warming contrails would effectively reduce the net contribution of flights to global warming to zero, according to a new report from the UK’s Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS).

Contrails form when soot and water vapor emissions from jets mix with humid, cold air. Photo Credit: TinaSova20/Shutterstock Delta has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study ...

Contrails form when soot and water vapor emissions from jets mix with humid, cold air. Photo Credit: TinaSova20/Shutterstock A cross-section of airlines, academic institutions and technology partners ...

Since the dawn of commercial jet travel, the uninformed masses have looked up at the skies and assumed the vapor trailing off of airliners was the government covertly spraying chemicals over the ...

Delta Air Lines said Thursday it will work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a study examining the environmental impact of airplane contrails. The focus of the study is how to ...