While seeing plastic on beaches, or any stretch of land or waterway, is nothing out of the ordinary these days, seeing ...

Commissioner Ashley Hofberger has ended her quest to erect a Pensacola Beach Gateway sign after intense public backlash and a lack of funding.

Around 2,000 of the mystery black balls, some golf ball-sized, had washed onto beaches across Sydney since Tuesday, forcing the closure of eight beaches, including the iconic Bondi Beach, and a ...

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LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. — Tar appears to be washing up on the shores of some South Florida beaches from Lake Worth Beach to Boynton Beach, and even as far south as Fort Lauderdale. Mark Sanphy ...

Commissioner Ashley Hofberger has ended her quest to erect a Pensacola Beach Gateway sign after intense public backlash and a lack of funding.

Months after an epidemic of “grease balls” washed up on the NSW coastline, a new mystery has emerged after a woman found dozens of mysterious green balls along another beach.

Tar balls, sticky, dark clumps have been appearing along the beaches in Florida, staining sand and skin, and even causing Fort Lauderdale Beach to temporarily close.

With some estimating that billions of balls are lost annually around the world, efforts are being made to tackle this environmental hazard.

Reports of mysterious tar balls are popping up on beaches in South Florida as the U.S. Coast Guard looks to investigate the source of the sticky substance.

There’s a good chance the objects on Coogee beach are not, as some have suggested, tar balls. But in any case, they pose a potential risk and authorities are right to close the beach.