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 ...

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 ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — 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 ...

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 ...