A 7-year-old girl died recently in Tennessee while deflating helium balloons from her birthday party, the child's mother said. The mother, Channa Kelly, warned other parents about the potential ...

If you’ve tried to get balloons for a party recently, you’ve probably heard about the global helium shortage. Many stores are limiting the number of helium balloons you can buy at a time. Grand Slam ...

No helium, of course, means no helium balloons, and what's a celebration without balloons? With moms trying to plan graduation parties and end of the school year events, the worldwide helium shortage ...

DEL MAR, Calif. — While cigarette butts are the top plastic pollutant along our coastline, there is another frequent plastic waste that pops up. More often seen when it is time to celebrate dads, ...

Helium is getting hard to find these days, and it’s ruining parties for people of all ages. No helium, of course, means no helium balloons, and what's a celebration without balloons? Among moms who ...

A woman was left disheartened after going to Party City for just two balloons. “We can’t have anything fun anymore,” TikTok user Kat (@katmcgahan) announces in a video after a trip to Party City. In ...

Helium balloons are a quintessential party favor, a fixture of any birthday, wedding or anniversary party. But few consumers seem to know that helium is a limited resource — and one which physics ...

Balloons drift into the night sky after mourners released them at the conclusion of a vigil memorializing five students from Smithfield-Selma High School in January 2024. While balloon releases can be ...

Watching helium gas lift balloons into the air is a lot of fun — or perhaps a tragedy if that balloon belonged to a small child who let it go. And, who hasn’t sipped the helium gas from a balloon and ...

As new laws passed by the Georgia General Assembly took effect July 1, one widely discussed issue is not among them: a ban on helium balloon releases. Despite social media chatter suggesting that ...