At the dismay of environmental and wildlife advocates, the Louisiana governor vetoed a bill to ban balloon releases, saying ...

A sea turtle with a balloon string extruding from its digestive system. Balloons often drift over the ocean and land on the water's surface, where turtles and other marine animals can mistake them ...

The string from weather balloons launched annually in the United States alone could stretch to the peak of Mount Everest 185 times. Jennifer Provencher, ...

Runaway balloons. Things at the test launch appear to be going smoothly, ... It turns out they forgot to reset a device that is supposed to cut the string at the end of the flight.

A string of “unidentified objects” entered North American skies in the past few days only to be shot down by US military aircraft. And, no, the objects aren’t the work of aliens. Human-made ...

The petition cites the harmful effects balloon releases can have on the environment and animals. One of their family’s goats was found tangled in a balloon string.