Sadly, affordable helium balloons — festive and amusingly buoyant — may soon become a thing of the past. According to experts, the world could run out of helium, a nonrenewable resource with other ...

Hearts are heavy these days in the world of lighter-than-air helium balloons. A helium shortage is making balloon prices rise faster than a helium balloon itself after a kid lets it go. "I don't want ...

A global helium shortage could burst the bubble for all the businesses that rely on the gas to lift weather balloons, large blimps, and, yes, the balloons at your kid’s birthday bash that make your ...

As officials prepare to inflate balloons for the 93rd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, something else is rising, too: the cost of helium. Last year, each balloon required between 300,000 and 700 ...