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Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com.\n\n\n\nOn a fall day in 2023, a juvenile Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross was lying listless in southeastern Brazil’s Santos Basin. Beach monitors found the young bird in the sand, weak and hypothermic. The cause of the albatross’s misery was evident: it was caught in a weather balloon. The balloon’s string, still attached to a radio transmitter, had gouged into the bird’s flesh—fracturing bones, killing tissues, and cutting off circulation to the bird’s feet. The albatross, too entangled to spread oil from its tail gland to its feathers for waterproofing, was soaked to the skin.\n\n\n\nStaff from the nonprofit Albatross Project took the desperate bird to the organization’s rehabilitation center nearby, where veterinarian Daphne Goldberg and her colleagues examined the albatross and decided euthanasia was the only option. Albatrosses need their feet to paddle and fly—it would not have survived as an amputee. “It was a tragedy. It was awful,” Goldberg recalls.\n\n\n\nGoldberg is the coauthor of a recent study about the impact weather-balloon debris is having on seabirds and marine animals. Globally, hundreds of thousands of weather balloons are launched into the sky every year, and the majority are never recovered. Instead, their waste—a mix of latex, cotton, and plastics—remains in marine ecosystems for years. And because only a small percentage of dead animals wash ashore, the impact is likely worse than the numbers suggest. “Probably there are a lot more [balloon entanglements],” Goldberg says.\n\n\n\nMany countries use weather balloons to gather high-altitude data on air temperature, pressure, and humidity. Before the invention of modern weather balloons in the 1930s, scientists flew kites—and later, hot air balloons—equipped with thermometers to get such measurements.\n\n\n\nToday, there are about 1,300 stations globally that release balloons—each one more than three times the size of a standard beach ball—to inform weather reports as well as warnings for storms such as Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Attached to the balloon’s cotton string is a radiosonde, a polystyrene or hard plastic box containing sensors and a battery-operated radio transmitter that sends weather data to a ground receiver every second.\n\n\n\nThe United States launches some 76,600 balloons annually, while Canada sends up around 22,000. As each balloon ascends, it expands. Once it has traveled up about 35 kilometers and its volume has grown 100-fold, it explodes, shooting latex in all directions and releasing a small parachute that floats the radiosonde back to Earth. These balloons are used just once.\n\n\n\nAustralian researchers at the Tangaroa Blue Foundation first flagged the problem of weather-balloon garbage a decade ago. Over 21 months, they collected 2,460 pieces of weather-balloon litter around the Great Barrier Reef. The researchers estimated that up to 70 percent of Australia’s weather balloons end up in the ocean. (The country has 38 sites from which it releases up to 300 balloons every week.)\n\n\n\nGoldberg’s group witnessed the impact of weather balloons firsthand when they examined seven albatrosses found in Brazil’s Santos Basin, including the one with the broken feet. Of the other six birds, two more were Atlantic yellow-nosed albatrosses. The remaining four were black-browed albatrosses. The birds were found with debris tangled around their feet, wings, and legs. Postmortem examinations concluded that these animals likely became caught while alive. The researchers traced one balloon to the Brazilian city of Guarulhos, 90 kilometers inland; another came from Florianópolis, 500 kilometers south.\n\n\n\nIn 2023, a different group of researchers published the details of two dead juvenile Kemp’s ridley turtles that were found twisted in weather-balloon debris in Virginia. One animal had string wrapped around its flipper. The second had string binding all four flippers along with its neck and plastron (underside).\n\n\n\nThe study notes that while some of the materials used in weather balloons—like latex and cotton string—are considered biodegradable, much of it, including the string, is not breaking down quickly. The string from weather balloons launched annually in the United States alone could stretch to the peak of Mount Everest 185 times.\n\n\n\nJennifer Provencher, an adjunct research professor at Carleton University in Ottawa who wasn’t involved in either study, points out that the larger impact of weather-balloon debris is unknown because it’s mostly invisible. “We have essentially no clue about what it does at the population level,” she says.\n\n\n\nThe birds in the Brazilian paper were caught in equipment manufactured by the Finnish company Vaisala, a major manufacturer of weather equipment. In an email, Niina Ala-Luopa, Vaisala’s head of communications, said, “We deeply value the welfare of animals and the environment.” She added that the string is now made from cellulose-based fiber designed to weaken much faster than previous cotton versions and that the company also offers radiosonde containers made of natural materials and starch in addition to conventional ones. These new models are 20 to 30 percent more expensive.\n\n\n\nDespite the higher cost, weather bureaus are also starting to reduce the impact of their instruments. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has tried out Vaisala’s more sustainable balloon prototypes and has switched from white to blue balloons, which marine animals may be less likely to mistake for food. The United Kingdom’s Met Office also plans to test out Vaisala’s new balloons; it will launch them from two British Antarctic Survey stations in 2025.\n\n\n\nThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States has been experimenting with various new weather balloons and data-gathering devices as well, including a balloon that can stay aloft for up to 16 days instead of just a couple of hours. In 2024, the agency announced it would be testing two different drones to collect weather data, both of which are recoverable.\n\n\n\nWeather agencies aren’t trialing these new devices solely because they’re more sustainable; they also want better data. For now, though, balloons still soar much higher than drones, so they remain an important data-collecting tool. Lower-impact versions would at least be a small improvement for the ocean’s animals.\n\n\n\nThis article first appeared in Hakai Magazine and is republished here with permission."},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://www.popsci.com/environment/weather-forecasting-marine-wildlife/","url":"https://hakaimagazine.com/news/weather-forecasting-is-deadly-for-marine-wildlife/","name":"Weather forecasting is deadly for marine wildlife | Popular Science","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://www.popsci.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://hakaimagazine.com/news/weather-forecasting-is-deadly-for-marine-wildlife/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https://hakaimagazine.com/news/weather-forecasting-is-deadly-for-marine-wildlife/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/navy.jpg?quality=85","datePublished":"2024-10-17T09:14:07-04:00","dateModified":"2024-10-17T09:14:07-04:00","description":"Latex balloons designed to collect high-altitude data become a threat to marine animals after they burst—though the scale of their impact remains unknown.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://hakaimagazine.com/news/weather-forecasting-is-deadly-for-marine-wildlife/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://hakaimagazine.com/news/weather-forecasting-is-deadly-for-marine-wildlife/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https://hakaimagazine.com/news/weather-forecasting-is-deadly-for-marine-wildlife/#primaryimage","url":"https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/navy.jpg?quality=85","contentUrl":"https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/navy.jpg?quality=85","width":2000,"height":1125,"caption":"A US Navy officer releases a weather balloon over the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. 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post-662926 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-conservation category-environment category-weather tag-news content_type-1-group content_type-2-page-type content_type-3-timeframe content_type-feature content_type-non-evergreen content_type-syndicated author_tag-danielle-beurteaux"> <div class="article-content-featured-image lg:ml-[-4]"> <figure> <img class="archive-post-thumb article-featured-image w-full h-full mb-3 object-center" src="https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/navy.jpg?quality=85&w=2000" srcset="https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/navy.jpg 2000w, https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/navy.jpg?w=768&h=432 768w, https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/navy.jpg?w=1536&h=864 1536w, https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/navy.jpg?w=800&h=450 800w, https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/navy.jpg?w=356&h=200 356w, 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https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/navy.jpg?w=370&h=208 370w, https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/navy.jpg?w=308&h=173 308w, https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/navy.jpg?w=50&h=28 50w" sizes="(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px" fetchpriority="high" alt="A US Navy officer releases a weather balloon over the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. Today, the United States launches around 76,600 balloons annually to gather high-altitude weather data on air temperature, pressure, and humidity." /> <div class="article-featured-image-caption-container"> <figcaption class="article-featured-image-caption font-primary font-normal text-sm text-secondary-800">A US Navy officer releases a weather balloon over the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. Today, the United States launches around 76,600 balloons annually to gather high-altitude weather data on air temperature, pressure, and humidity. 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Read more stories like this at <a href="https://hakaimagazine.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">hakaimagazine.com</a>.</em></p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">On a fall day in 2023, a juvenile <a href="https://eol.org/pages/45511277" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross</a> was lying listless in southeastern Brazil’s Santos Basin. Beach monitors found the young bird in the sand, weak and hypothermic. The cause of the albatross’s misery was evident: it was caught in a weather balloon. The balloon’s string, still attached to a radio transmitter, had gouged into the bird’s flesh—fracturing bones, killing tissues, and cutting off circulation to the bird’s feet. The albatross, too entangled to spread oil from its tail gland to its feathers for waterproofing, was soaked to the skin.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Staff from the nonprofit Albatross Project took the desperate bird to the organization’s rehabilitation center nearby, where veterinarian Daphne Goldberg and her colleagues examined the albatross and decided euthanasia was the only option. Albatrosses need their feet to paddle and fly—it would not have survived as an amputee. “It was a tragedy. It was awful,” Goldberg recalls.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Goldberg is the coauthor of a <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X24002443" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">recent study</a> about the impact weather-balloon debris is having on seabirds and marine animals. Globally, hundreds of thousands of weather balloons are launched into the sky every year, and the majority are never recovered. Instead, their waste—a mix of latex, cotton, and plastics—remains in marine ecosystems for years. And because only a small percentage of dead animals wash ashore, the impact is likely worse than the numbers suggest. “Probably there are a lot more [balloon entanglements],” Goldberg says.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Many countries use weather balloons to <a href="https://www.weather.gov/upperair/reqdahdr" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">gather high-altitude data</a> on air temperature, pressure, and humidity. Before the invention of modern weather balloons in the 1930s, scientists flew kites—and later, hot air balloons—equipped with thermometers to get such measurements.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Today, there are about 1,300 stations globally that release balloons—each one more than three times the size of a standard beach ball—to inform weather reports as well as warnings for storms such as Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Attached to the balloon’s cotton string is a radiosonde, a polystyrene or hard plastic box containing sensors and a battery-operated radio transmitter that sends weather data to a ground receiver every second.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">The United States launches some 76,600 balloons annually, while Canada sends up around 22,000. As each balloon ascends, it expands. Once it has traveled up about 35 kilometers and its volume has grown 100-fold, it <a href="https://wapo.st/4f0Elll" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">explodes</a>, shooting latex in all directions and releasing a small parachute that floats the radiosonde back to Earth. These balloons are used just once.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Australian researchers at the Tangaroa Blue Foundation <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X13007959" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">first flagged</a> the problem of weather-balloon garbage a decade ago. Over 21 months, they collected 2,460 pieces of weather-balloon litter around the Great Barrier Reef. The researchers estimated that up to 70 percent of Australia’s weather balloons end up in the ocean. (The country has 38 sites from which it releases up to 300 balloons every week.)</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Goldberg’s group witnessed the impact of weather balloons firsthand when they examined seven albatrosses found in Brazil’s Santos Basin, including the one with the broken feet. Of the other six birds, two more were Atlantic yellow-nosed albatrosses. The remaining four were <a href="https://eol.org/pages/45511273" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">black-browed albatrosses</a>. The birds were found with debris tangled around their feet, wings, and legs. Postmortem examinations concluded that these animals likely became caught while alive. The researchers traced one balloon to the Brazilian city of Guarulhos, 90 kilometers inland; another came from Florianópolis, 500 kilometers south.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">In 2023, a different group of researchers <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X23005404" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">published</a> the details of two dead juvenile <a href="https://eol.org/pages/46559476" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Kemp’s ridley turtles</a> that were found twisted in weather-balloon debris in Virginia. One animal had string wrapped around its flipper. The second had string binding all four flippers along with its neck and plastron (underside).</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">The study notes that while some of the materials used in weather balloons—like latex and cotton string—are considered biodegradable, much of it, including the string, is not breaking down quickly. The string from weather balloons launched annually in the United States alone could stretch to the peak of Mount Everest 185 times.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Jennifer Provencher, an adjunct research professor at Carleton University in Ottawa who wasn’t involved in either study, points out that the larger impact of weather-balloon debris is unknown because it’s mostly invisible. “We have essentially no clue about what it does at the population level,” she says.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">The birds in the Brazilian paper were caught in equipment manufactured by the Finnish company Vaisala, a major manufacturer of weather equipment. In an email, Niina Ala-Luopa, Vaisala’s head of communications, said, “We deeply value the welfare of animals and the environment.” She added that the string is now made from cellulose-based fiber designed to weaken much faster than previous cotton versions and that the company also offers radiosonde containers made of natural materials and starch in addition to conventional ones. These new models are 20 to 30 percent more expensive.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Despite the higher cost, weather bureaus are also starting to reduce the impact of their instruments. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has tried out Vaisala’s more sustainable balloon prototypes and has switched from white to blue balloons, which marine animals may be less likely to mistake for food. The United Kingdom’s Met Office also plans to test out Vaisala’s new balloons; it will launch them from two British Antarctic Survey stations in 2025.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States has been experimenting with various new weather balloons and data-gathering devices as well, including a balloon that can <a href="https://wpo.noaa.gov/windborne-weather-balloon-reaches-new-heights/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">stay aloft</a> for up to 16 days instead of just a couple of hours. In 2024, the agency announced it would be testing two different drones to collect weather data, both of which are recoverable.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Weather agencies aren’t trialing these new devices solely because they’re more sustainable; they also want better data. For now, though, balloons still soar much higher than drones, so they remain an important data-collecting tool. Lower-impact versions would at least be a small improvement for the ocean’s animals.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip"><em>This article first appeared in <a href="https://hakaimagazine.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hakai Magazine</a> and is republished here with permission.</em></p> <section class="content-widget content-widget--large"> <span class="block bg-secondary-300 h-2 w-16 mt-10 mb-8"> </span> <div class="flex flex-col md:flex-row items-start justify-items-start"> <div class="mb-4 md:mb-0 md:w-4/12 w-full"> <img width="300" height="169" src="https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ps-ggs.jpg?quality=85&w=300" class="max-w-[100%]" alt="" srcset="https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ps-ggs.jpg 1920w, https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ps-ggs.jpg?w=768&h=432 768w, https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ps-ggs.jpg?w=1536&h=864 1536w, https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ps-ggs.jpg?w=800&h=450 800w, 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