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Mitigation Strategies

The development and implementation of strategies to reduce the climate impact of contrail cirrus, including rerouting and improved forecasting.

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Feb 6, 2026

What scientific evidence explains why some contrails persist and spread into cirrus clouds?

Persistent contrails form when cold, moist upper-troposphere air mixes with hot, humid aircraft exhaust and the conditions meet a thermodynamic formation threshold; in regions that are ice‑supersatura...

Feb 3, 2026

Is flouride bad for plants?

: at sufficiently high concentrations or with chronic exposure it impairs photosynthesis, growth, germination and reproductive organs in many plant species and produces characteristic leaf-tip and mar...