Tar balls are washing up on County beaches. Here’s what you need to know about where they come from and why they’re a concern ...

Tar balls have popped up across South Florida, including in Indian River County over the weekend. Have you seen them on the ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on South Florida ...

South Floridians enjoying a pleasant Saturday at the beach found themselves stepping in dark, greasy balls of oil, possibly ...

Tar balls are formed when oil coalesces around debris, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

When we first came down here, there was like weird, black globs on the beach … I thought it was a sea creature or something,” one man said.

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating after tar balls were seen washed up on southeast Florida beaches. The substances were ...

The sticky, gooey mess is beginning to clear up along Palm Beach’s Atlantic Ocean coastline, town officials said.

Tar balls are small clumps of oil that appear on beaches, often remnants of oil spills or natural oil seeps. Exposure to tar balls can cause skin irritation or allergic reactions in some ...

Tar balls have been on beaches across South Florida, including as far as Jaycee and Humiston beaches in Indian River County last weekend. Where the sticky, semi-solid clumps of oil originated from ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...