Senate Bill 1154, introduced in the Environment Committee on Jan. 24, would ban any lighter-than-air-gas or helium balloons entirely and impose fines for violators. Current law allows the release ...

Cracker question because helium balloons are actually a pretty controversial topic. Some people argue that they are harmful to the environment because on returning to Earth, animals mistake them ...

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the ...

Helium is best known as the ultralight element used to lift party balloons and the Goodyear Blimp ... could prove an ideal hiding spot for the gas. In the helium industry, Abraham-James said ...

Because helium is in finite supply, its availability is largely contingent upon the natural gas industry ... is nearly ubiquitously associated with balloons, Kornbluth says the major players ...

They spread out the enormous balloons on the grass and check all the lines. The talk is all about today's temperature, wind speed, and direction. Some of the balloonists have turned on their gas ...

But a gas? One that’s known to most of us for lighter-than-air party balloons? In fact, helium is one of the world’s most commercially important elements. It’s used in semiconductor ...