The golf-ball-size debris that led to beach closures across the Australian city was not tar balls as first thought, but was instead made up of decomposed cooking oils, hair and food waste.

Thousands of mysterious blobs that closed several Sydney beaches last month have been revealed to contain materials “consistent with human generated waste”, scientists at the University of New South ...

Thousands of mysterious blobs that closed several Sydney beaches last month have been revealed to contain materials ...

In an interview with 9News, lead investigator Associate Professor Jon Beves from the University of New South Wales said, ...

New research has revealed the make-up of the mysterious black balls that washed up on Sydney beaches last month.

Mysterious black blobs that washed ashore in Sydney a few weeks back are not merely tar balls, as identified earlier. In fact ...

Lead investigator Associate Professor Jon Beves from the University of New South Wales described the odour as “worse than anything you’ve ever smelt.” Professor William Alexander Donald noted that the ...

Former South Wales Argus rugby writer Steve Bale, one of the most respected and well-travelled sports reporters of the past four decades, has ...

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 DNA evidence suggests things were not as they seem, and these prevailing interpretations come from looking at the ancient world through ...

Thousands of “disgusting” sticky black balls that forced the closure of several Sydney beaches are made of human-made waste, scientists have discovered. The foul-smelling balls, which were first ...

Whooping cough cases across Australia have passed 40,000 in a year for the first time since recording began more than 30 ...