In mid-April, just east of St. Cloud the Steerview Fire burned 275 acres –and of all things to ignite, it was a balloon.

The rotund, silvery opah looks less like a deep-sea predator than a Mylar balloon, with curved pectoral ... embedded right in the opah’s gill arches, meaning that heat circulates throughout ...

Teresa O'Connor, a Rhode Island resident, creates art installations using mylar balloons collected from beaches to raise awareness about pollution. Her work has been featured in exhibits and ...