Condensation trails, or contrails, are long, thin clouds that can form behind airplanes at cruising altitude. They are created by jet engines.

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Contrails — short for condensation trail — are the white streaks in the sky behind planes. Airplanes create the lines of water vapor when they fly through high altitude humidity zones.

If you look up in the sky during a sunny day, you might see long, skinny looking clouds coming from behind planes. Those are contrails, short for ‘condensation trails.’ ...

Contrails, says NASA, are “a type of ice cloud formed by aircraft as water vapor condenses around small dust particles, which provide the vapor with sufficient energy to freeze.” ...

Contrails — short for condensation trail — are the white streaks in the sky behind planes. Airplanes create the lines of water vapor when they fly through high altitude humidity zones.

The more we fly, the worse it will get. Contrails, those white ribbons jets leave behind in the sky, will exacerbate global warming in the next few decades, a new study published Thursday suggests ...

There’s a case to be made that increased aerosol pollution during WWII caused a slight warming but I say bring it. Contrails. I personally don’t care if it gets warmer and if I were in a ...

Since contrails, like other clouds, are bright white and insulating, they reflect light and heat, and also trap it. On a sunny day, a contrail does two things simultaneously.

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 ...

They estimate that the CO 2 emissions and contrails from these flights will have warmed the climate by about 17 microKelvins (μK) in 2039, 20 years later, and 14 μK in 2119, 100 years later.

They were able to cut down on contrail coverage by about 54%, based on Google’s satellite imagery. But those flights had to use about 2% more fuel to gain the results. Advertisement ...