More eyes on the skies can help planes reduce climate-warming contrails

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Dec 22, 2025, 8:20 pm124 ptsTrending
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 from the planet's surface, and while the magnitude of this impact is uncertain, several studies suggest…

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