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

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

The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on South Florida beaches over the weekend, but so ...

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

The weather this weekend was perfect for a trip to the sun-kissed shoreline of Palm Beach. But beachgoers faced a viscous ...

At 7:05 p.m. Saturday, the Coast Guard’s Southeast District posted to social media that “Coast Guard air and surface crews completed searches from Palm beach to Port Everglades for the source of the ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on Florida beaches over the weekend FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that ...

Tar balls are formed when oil coalesces around debris. Lifeguard captain Shaun Dibble encountered a tar ball by stepping on one. DEP gives recommendations on how to treat skin that has made ...

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.The agency has been ...