Thousands of mysterious black balls that washed ashore and closed a stretch of popular Australian beaches last month were discovered to be mini blobs of poop. Initially believed to be made of tar ...

Diamond Beach in Iceland is an 11-mile stretch of black sand covered with icebergs and is located on the country’s southern coast. The beach has become a major attraction for tourists ...

Beach holidays are what kicked off tourism in Lanzarote in the 1960s and the island is blessed with a string of fine beaches. There are those black sand beaches that you find dotted throughout ...

Hundreds of mysterious “tar balls” about the size of golf balls washed up on Sydney’s beaches in mid-October, prompting their closure for days for cleanup operations. The black spheres were ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of sticky black balls that began washing on beaches in Sydney, Australia last month. Thousands of the strange balls first began appearing in mid-October ...

When thousands of foul-smelling "black balls" washed up on Australian beaches, many were perplexed ... The inorganic material within the ball comes from sand, calcium salt and bacteria primarily ...

FOUL-SMELLING black balls have been spotted on multiple Australian beaches - and experts are baffled as to where they came from. The black spheres have been putting off scientists with their ...

New research has revealed the make-up of the mysterious black balls that washed up on Sydney beaches last month. Scientists from the University of New South Wales have analysed the sticky spheres ...

Environmental officials in Australia still haven't completely solved the mystery of black balls found littering popular beaches on the country's eastern coastline, but they're getting closer.

A sand mining company has been ordered to pay $500,000 in costs to community groups who fiercely opposed its plans to mine near Pākiri beach north of Auckland. McCallum Bros was ordered to pay the ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of sticky black balls that began washing on beaches in Sydney, Australia last month. Thousands of the strange balls first began appearing in mid-October, including ...