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

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

In October, the Canadian Coast Guard cleaned up tar balls floating to the ocean's surface from the site of a World War II era ...

But beachgoers faced a viscous mess that started Saturday: Tar balls, accumulations of a sticky black material, dotting the coast. The U.S. Coast Guard reported the tar balls in a post on X ...

Beaches in South Florida are open again after an oily substance presumed to be tar balls began washing up on the coast between West Palm Beach and Miami-Dade County over the weekend. Tarballs in the ...

The tar balls that washed up on South Florida beaches, from Hollywood to Palm Beach County, seem to be dissipating on their own, the Coast Guard said Monday. “We conducted aerial flights and ...

What's the source of the dark goop washing up on Florida's beaches? The U.S. Coast Guard is scanning the shores from Port ...