Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is expected to use 350 thousand cubic feet of helium to fill 30 giant balloons and 7 self-powered “balloonicles.” But attendees of the parade may not ...

Current law allows the release of up to 10 helium-filled balloons in a 24-hour period ... which has been on the books for 30 years, is just not working. First of all, enforcement is an issue.

It took roughly 30 minutes for all 1,429,643 balloons to go airborne—like a “helium mountain” rising into the sky, as one reporter observed. It took roughly an hour before the 10-car pile-up ...

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 ...