Environmental Graffiti

Exploding Water Balloons Crystallized in Time

Snapshots of water-filled balloons bursting are amazingly frozen moments in time. Granted, they also bring back memories of when you were a young scamp, mischievously dropping water bombs on hapless cyclists from overpasses, or soaking whole streets in drive-by drench-athons – but those days of innocence are gone now. So, it just leaves us to sit back and wonder at the beautiful physics of the things – plus the devilish uses to which they can be put.

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City Council Bans Balloons to Save Sea Creatures

A British town council has banned balloons from some events, citing the health risk to sea turtles. Image from q-tal The members of the Portsmouth City Council enacted the ban recently after environmental campaigners expressed their fears that burst balloons

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