An Essential Resource for All Generations

Helium has helped humanity explore matter, image the body and reach beyond Earth. Conserve Helium brings its science, history and supply choices together around a simple purpose: preserve more of this remarkable resource for future generations.

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Earth photographed by the Apollo 17 crew, showing Africa, Antarctica and swirling clouds.

Earth from Apollo 17, 1972. NASA / Apollo 17.

Helium serves humanity

Medicine

Understand helium’s role in superconducting MRI magnets and the move toward systems with smaller sealed inventories.

Discovery

Explore the extraordinary cold that makes helium valuable to particle physics and laboratory research.

Technology

Follow its uses in semiconductor manufacturing, aerospace and other demanding industrial processes.

Sources: USGS [S02] · CERN [S17] · NASA [S18]

Find your next topic: Browse the complete topic index, look up a term in the glossary, or start a conservation discussion with the fillable worksheets.

Explore the helium library

The science of helium

where it comes from, what makes it useful and why recovery matters.

From the Sun to the laboratory

discovery, liquefaction and the growth of a public resource.

Applications

specific uses, with the limits of each claim explained.

The federal reserve

the policy timeline and the transition to private ownership.

World Helium Watch

selected developments from January through October 2026.

Conservation and the balloon legacy

practical choices for institutions and individuals.

Our purpose

We honor helium’s service by advocating recovery, careful procurement and an end to helium-filled party balloons. That is our conservation position. The research library explains the evidence behind it and the choices that remain.