Thousands of black blobs washed up on several beaches in Sydney, Australia last month, prompting closures. Scientists have now found that the blobs were made up of several things including human waste ...

Each week, health department teams across Virginia take to local beaches to search for a culprit that could dampen a day of fun in the sun. Starting early in the morning, team members go beach by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the holiday weekend, many people looking to cool off from the summer heat were disappointed as some beaches were closed or ...

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, ...

People looking to cool off on a hot summer day at the Jersey Shore can swim worry free after being made aware of high levels of fecal matter in the water.

One teenager was killed and another hospitalized after a crashing nearly 20 feet down an embankment in Clackamas County Friday evening. Nearly three blocks in Northeast Portland were flooded after a ...

A popular beach in Finland has been overrun by massive loads of goose droppings, leaving sunseekers tiptoeing through a minefield of poop as officials desperately scramble to clean up the repugnant ...

A favorite way to beat the heat over the summer is to cool down on various shorelines from lakes to oceans, but a startling new report could make you think twice before diving in. About half of the ...