The algae growth is fuelled by industrial, agricultural, sewage pollution, and climate change. Blue-green algae blooms have covered much of Lough Neagh for the third consecutive year Pollution from ...

Lough Neagh offers seemingly endless space and distant horizons in the center of the province of Ulster. Ancient history, busy towns and villages, wildlife parks, and walking trails – to say nothing ...

Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland is being plagued by toxic algae blooms, prompting concern from locals and environmentalists. Love Our Lough, a group of concerned citizens, staged a wake for Lough ...

Environmentalists have held a wake to mark the “death” of the UK and Ireland’s largest freshwater lake as they accused polluters of causing a huge bloom of toxic blue-green algae. Activists dressed in ...

Agriculture and Environment Minister says its detection in Lower Lough Erne is "another significant pressure to our already ...

Lough Neagh’s only commercial fishery was not consulted about a major action plan to tackle the environmental crisis currently gripping the lake, a Stormont committee has heard. Fresh details emerged ...

Toxic blue-green algae blooms covered much of Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the UK and Ireland, and this summer, the thick green veneer has been worse than ever, according to locals living near the ...

The water from Lough Neagh provides half of Belfast's drinking water and around 40% for the rest of Northern Ireland. It's the biggest freshwater lake in the whole of the UK and Ireland. There has ...

The recovery of Lough Neagh, which has been blighted with pollution and blue-green algae blooms, could take decades, Stormont’s Environment Minister has said. Andrew Muir was speaking following ...

Lough Neagh is the largest lake in the UK and Ireland. For the third consecutive year, a dense, green layer of harmful algae has covered a large portion of this lake, raising significant concerns.

Lough Neagh is the largest freshwater lake in the United Kingdom and Ireland and is located in the six-county statelet of Northern Ireland. This small country of just under 2 million people currently ...