Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tar balls, sticky, dark clumps have been appearing along the beaches in Florida, staining sand and skin, and even causing Fort ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- New York City residents have been alerted to sightings of 1- to 2-inch tar balls on Fort Wadsworth beaches that have prompted an oil spill cleanup. Coast Guard Sector of New ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — It was beautiful weather for the beach this weekend, but beachgoers found themselves in a sticky situation. The US Coast Guard reported tar balls washing up on the ...

Sticky black blobs of oil are washing up on Texas’ shorelines again. The tar balls are pieces of oil clumped together that are often remnants of oil spills but can also be created from natural seeps, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast ...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — Several people have reported tar balls washing up on the shoreline throughout Palm Beach County. Nathan Seivert was snorkeling the rock piles at Ocean Inlet Park in Boynton Beach ...

The Padre Island National Seashore has a reputation for having some beautiful beaches, but there is currently a stain on that reputation. If you don’t watch where you step, you could find yourself in ...

Tar balls, sticky, dark clumps have been appearing along the beaches in Florida, staining sand and skin, and even causing Fort Lauderdale Beach to temporarily close. The U.S Coast Guard investigated ...

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 remains a ...