LONG BRANCH, New Jersey (WPVI) -- The Coast Guard and several other agencies in New Jersey are investigating after tar balls were discovered along the Jersey Shore on Long Branch and Monmouth beaches.

Natural tar balls are washing up on Padre Island beaches, a common summer occurrence. Warming Gulf waters cause the quarter-sized tar pieces to surface and drift to shore. Tar can be removed from skin ...

It’s the time of year when Texas beachgoers may encounter natural tar balls washing up on Padre Island. Padre Island National Seashore announced on its Facebook page that tar balls have been spotted ...

If you’ve been walking the beaches this summer, you may have noticed sticky black blobs scattered along the shoreline. These are tar balls, and they’ve been washing up all season long. On my ...

Beachgoers heading to the shore this summer might find more than just sand between their toes. Tar balls, small black blobs of petroleum residue, are a common sight along Gulf Coast beaches. Ever been ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Volunteers scoured the shoreline along Long Beach and Belmont Shore to clean up tar balls as a four-mile stretch of the coast remains closed Thursday. After the tar balls ...

Residents and beachgoers are encountering something strange on South Padre Island, and it isn't shape-shifting sea creatures. Beach resident Sandra Lee Mendiola told MySA she found "oil everywhere" on ...

MIAMI — Park rangers discovered 20 “tar balls” on a Key West shore, prompting alarm Tuesday that the first sign of the massive BP oil spill had washed up on a Florida shore. In Key West, the Coast ...

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MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- South Bay beaches remain closed after an oily substance washed ashore on Wednesday, but no new tar balls were spotted on Thursday. "Our primary objectives are, of ...