Matteo Mirolo, head of contrail policy and strategy at Breakthrough Energy, said “business aviation not only can but must supercharge” its climate-impact work. Credit: Mark Wagner/Aviation-Images ...

A trial involving thousands of flights between the US and Europe has found that planes produce fewer contrails if they follow flight paths recommended by an artificial intelligence to reduce their ...

Your browser does not support iframes, but you can visit Eliminating contrails would cut aviation's climate impact by half, but can it be done? Aviation Week editors ...

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 ...

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 ...