Last week while I was out taking other pictures around sunset, I looked up and saw a gull sitting on a light pole. I like gulls OK, but it was the plane behind the bird that really caught my eye.

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...