Hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle, Sandia National Laboratories researchers ensure the collection of important weather and climate data. By switching the gas used in their weather balloons, ...
Balloons like the massive ones that adorn the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade every year may be one of the most well-known uses of helium, but they’re far from the only one. The natural gas byproduct ...
The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City uses roughly 400,000 cubic feet of helium gas in total to inflate its iconic giant balloons. Besides being lighter than air and ...
A bill that would ban the release of helium-filled balloons in Connecticut passed the Senate on Tuesday, a victory for advocates who have long argued the balloons pose a deadly risk to wildlife. The ...
Michael Corcoran, a former captain for the Clinton Police Department Marine Control and avid fisherman, said that he often comes across floating debris in his boat from helium balloons that drift far ...
ATLANTA — Scores of new laws that were passed this year by the Georgia General Assembly take effect today, July 1. But a ban on helium balloon releases, the kind typically done at a memorial or vigil, ...
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