Sydney beaches reopen days after hundreds of tar balls wash ashore - The origins of the tar balls is still unclear and under ...

An environmental agency says black balls that washed up on Sydney beaches aren't tar, but a "complex composition" of "mixed ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A four-mile stretch of Long Beach coastline reopened Friday morning after crews cleaned tar balls that washed up on shore. The coastline between 1st and 72nd places were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) — A Texas official said yesterday that tar balls from the Gulf oil spill were found on a pair of state beaches, becoming the first known evidence that gushing crude from the ...