After a summer of blue-green algae, bathing bans, and pondweed and silt causing problems for boats, Belfast City Council recently added its voice to calls for Lough Neagh to be brought into public ...

Toxic blue-green algae in Lough Neagh has potentially begun to wake up again already, with two confirmed reports since the start of 2024. Last summer, it brought the largest freshwater lake in ...

New images and maps have been published which show the extent of environmental problems facing Lough Neagh. The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) released the ...

The Stormont department responsible for Lough Neagh has teamed up with the UK Space Agency in order to find new satellite technology which could help combat toxic bluegreen algae blooms in the lough.

This time last year I wrote about the dire situation in Lough Neagh and some other watercourses in the North. Algal blooms caused by cyanobacteria, and ultimately by invasive zebra mussels ...

First Minister Michelle O'Neill has said Stormont is determined to do everything it can to protect Lough Neagh. Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly said protecting the lough was a ...

Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland is the largest lake on the island of Ireland and in the United Kingdom. It has a surface area of over 150 square miles and supplies 40% of Northern Ireland's water.

Concern has been expressed that Belfast Lough could become “the new Lough Neagh” in the next 10 years. Lough Neagh hit the headlines two years ago when noxious blooms of blue-green algae covered large ...

Although blooms tend to be seasonal, they have been described as able to occur at any stage in the year. Blue-green algae on Lough Neagh is set to be observed from space. The UK Space Agency has ...

These are the themes around which the 37-point Lough Neagh Rescue plan has been built. After four long months and pressures that stemmed from devastating scenes around our biggest fresh water lake ...

The battle to combat the toxic blue green algae which has been taking over Lough Neagh in the past two summers is to reach new heights with the UK Space Agency set to keep a close watch on the ...