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  "id": 1689085,
  "title": "Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts (Madeleine Cuff/New Scientist)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/google-unveils-operation-blue-skies-a-5m-trial-to-re-route-north",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-18T10:00:36.000Z",
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    "url": "https://www.newscientist.com/article/2585091-planes-flying-over-the-atlantic-will-be-re-routed-to-avoid-contrails/"
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  "summary": "Operation Blue Skies is the world's first trial to deploy contrail avoidance measures across an entire airspace …",
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      {
        "outlet": "Google Blog",
        "title": "Operation Blue Skies: Reducing aviation climate impact with AI",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/operation-blue-skies-reducing-aviation-climate-impact-with-ai",
        "published": "2026-08-18T09:00:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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