However, the Port Authority of NSW said no oil spills had been reported by vessels. Experts have said the tar balls could be ...

The marble-sized white and grey balls were tested and discovered to contain "saturated fatty acids, along with fecal coliforms and E-coli." ...

The small, marble-sized balls were initially labelled “tar balls”, but their exact composition was actually a mixture of cooking oil, human faeces and other chemicals (including illicit drugs).

A fearsome trio of high humidity, rainfall and fog helped Mother Nature deliver a tar spot gut punch to corn in many Midwest fields last summer. “We knew it could easily take out 50 bu.

A UNSW scientist has criticised the NSW environmental watchdog for dropping its investigation into the cause of hundreds of tar balls appearing along Sydney's beaches. The criticism follows more ...

Tar balls washing ashore beaches in San Diego, California, nearly 100 miles away from a pipeline breach off the coast of Orange County. Local officials have launched efforts to clean up the spill ...