Planet struggling to keep up with growing plastic pollution 02:57. Environmental officials in Australia still haven't completely solved the mystery of black balls found littering popular beaches ...

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 ...

Thousands of black balls found washed up on a popular Sydney beach have been identified as tar balls. The unusual floaters were first spotted on Coogee Beach on Tuesday.

Mystery after hundreds of ‘toxic’ tar balls appear on beaches ‘Unusual’ light grey-white colour balls have polluted the beaches as their origin remains known ...

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 ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on South Florida beaches over the weekend, but so far the source of the black muck remains a mystery.

Australian authorities are testing mysterious debris balls that have washed up on beaches in recent days. It's part of an ongoing problem that is months-long. They are also warning beachgoers to ...

The small grey balls that caused panic when they began washing up on Sydney beaches two weeks ago have now been identified by scientists.. It turns out they were mostly congealed run-off of ...

Similar mystery balls appeared on other Australian beaches in late 2024. Testing indicated they were “ fatbergs ,” lumps of coagulated goo that often include cooking grease, drugs, wet wipes ...

A plague of bizarre and disgusting balls that have washed up along popular beaches in Australia have been found to contain fecal bacteria. Nine beaches across Sydney were closed on January 14 ...