Climate change

Europe leans into climate science with new missions as U.S. turns away from such projects.

Eurocontrol’s new approach to dealing with severe weather events in summer has contributed to a consistent improvement in punctuality since mid-July.

Move over “staycation,” the new travel industry buzzword is “coolcation.”

U.S. Energy Department’s advanced project agency launches aircraft contrail avoidance and high-energy battery projects.

Predicting contrail cirrus; Autonomy proving ground; eVTOL river crossing; Electric regional seaplane.

Enabling contrail avoidance; hybrid regional demonstrator; next-generation HAPS; and quantum computing for R&D.

As a warmer climate means more energy in the atmosphere, turbulence can be expected to grow.