Contrails are a major driver of aviation's climate impact, study shows

Aviation's climate impact extends beyond carbon dioxide emissions. A new international study, involving researchers from ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Research Agenda for Reducing the Climate Impact of Aviation-Induced Cloudiness and Persistent Contrails from Commercial Aviation

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Coordinated Approach to Contrails Research Needed to Ensure Competitiveness of U.S. Aviation Industry, Says New Report

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Delta works with MIT to study impact of airplane contrails on climate

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 ...
The Boston Globe

Delta, MIT partner to erase planet-warming contrails from skies

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 ...
Jalopnik

Delta And MIT Are Partnering To Eliminate Climate-Damaging Contrails

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 ...
Jalopnik

How Contrails Are Aviation's Biggest Threat To The Environment

It would be easy to assume that the commercial aviation industry's fuel consumption was its biggest impact on the environment. For example, a Boeing 737-800 burns about 5,000 pounds of fuel an hour in ...
Travel Weekly

Airlines and others collaborate to study contrails

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 ...
CSR Wire

In Conversation: Unveiling the Science Behind Contrail Avoidance

Marc Shapiro is the Director of the Breakthrough Energy Contrails team, one of American’s partners on contrail avoidance. Below, he answers our questions on the science behind contrail avoidance ...
Aviation Week

Eliminate Persistent Contrails To Cut Global Warming, Report Says

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).
Portland Press Herald

Delta works with MIT to study impact of airplane contrails on climate

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