Most airplane contrails go unseen from space, yet they may drive much of aviation’s climate impact, according to new MIT ...

Online military forums like SecretProjects went wild last year over a grainy, indistinct image of an aircraft. Basic digital enhancement showed a bat-winged craft unlike any known U.S. military plane, ...

Aviation's climate impact is partly due to contrails—condensation that a plane streaks across the sky when it flies through ...

Aviation contrails cost over 4 billion annually in climate damage, rivaling CO₂ emissions. 2-3% of flights cause 80% of ...

The challenge of addressing aviation’s non-carbon dioxide emissions is receiving greater attention, with the climatic impact associated with tell-tale signs in the sky coming under increased study.

A new study allays fears that rerouting flights to avoid forming climate-warming contrails could result in inadvertently making climate warming worse. Researchers from Sorbonne Universite and the ...

As Covid-19’s initial wave crested around the world, travel restrictions and a drop in passengers led to a record number of grounded flights in 2020. The air travel reduction cleared the skies of not ...