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.

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

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

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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 ...

University of New South Wales chemistry professor Jon Beves helped to find out what the ‘smelly balls’ were made of, and told ...

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

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 ...