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One of the biggest causes of climate change remains the airline industry. Now, AI is working to help. Traveling by air is a significant cause of pollution, largely because of jet fuel but also because ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Contrails — the white line-shaped clouds left behind by planes — pose a particular problem as they are able to trap heat. Julian ...

Modern commercial aircraft flying at high altitudes create longer-lived planet-warming contrails than older aircraft, a new study has found. The result means that although modern planes emit less ...

It's no secret that the world is facing a climate crisis, and that businesses are looking at ways to limit their carbon footprint, in a bid to help lower greenhouse gas emissions amid the harsh ...

American Airlines and Google said Thursday that they significantly reduced the climate impact of some of the airline's flights using an AI-based forecasting tool to help prevent contrails. When ...

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — The General Electric Aerospace’s 747 is one big plane, and after seeing it, you can understand why it has the nickname, Queen of the Skies. If you’ve never been on this plane ...

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 ...

Airplanes sometimes leave white lines in the sky, called contrails. But what's the science behind why they form, and are they good for the environment?

Aviation is responsible for about 2.5 percent of global CO2 emissions, but its overall contribution to climate change is higher because of non-CO2 impacts such as contrails. New aircraft may be ...