Environmental officials in Australia still haven't completely solved the mystery of black balls found littering popular beaches on the country's eastern coastline, but they're getting closer.

Nicknamed "tar balls", due to their black color, these larger golf-ball-sized chunks of mystery debris first started appearing on Sydney beaches in October, and continued washing up throughout the ...

Environmental officials in Australia still haven't completely solved the mystery of black balls found littering popular beaches on the country's eastern coastline, but they're getting closer.

The unusual floaters were first spotted on Coogee Beach on Tuesday. Randwick City Council says preliminary test results from samples collected on Tuesday afternoon showed the balls were a ...

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“That’s very slack of them.” Councils closed Coogee, Gordon’s Bay, Clovelly, Bondi, Bronte, Tamarama and Maroubra last year after the mystery balls were discovered from October 1 ...