Once they deflate and fall, sea turtles confuse them for one of their favorite foods: jellyfish. Birds, manatees, whales and other marine life also eat balloons, which can block their digestive ...

Balloon releases are a popular way to celebrate weddings, graduations and other events. But once the deflate and fall, they become hazards for marine life, often killing turtles and birds who eat ...

Ninety of the 900 rubber-and-plastic balloons released globally are deployed in the United States, and while they're meant to help people, they can be hazardous to sea life in just one example of ...

There are several recent cases of sea turtles ... on ocean plastic was that balloons were one of the most common types of plastics entangling or consumed by marine life, along with bags ...

Researchers found the most-ingested objects found were fishing line, plastic sheeting, bags, balloons and food wrappers, while packing straps, bags and balloons with ribbon were most responsible for ...

Ingesting plastics is a problem faced by marine life the world over. A paper published by the University of Queensland in 2012 concluded that sea turtles would consume balloons due to their ...

Stromatolites are round, multilayered mineral structures that range from the size of golf balls to weather balloons and ... and Bruce Damer: that life began, not in the sea, but on land.