Some toxins have been found in the flesh of some fish in Lough Neagh for the first time, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has confirmed. However, it said commercially harvested fish from the 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 ...

How do you solve a problem like Lough Neagh? Blue-green algae has been detected in the lough intermittently over the past six decades. But the past three summers have seen the biggest blooms since the ...

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 ...

Communities around Lough Neagh are probably some of the only people who rejoice at the colder, stormier weather of winter. For two years now, the sunshine and settled forecast of the warmer seasons ...

BBC NI's Agriculture and Environment correspondent Louise Cullen gives her round-up of 2025.

Irish News editorial on why clickbait politics won’t save Lough Neagh, or anything else ...

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 ...

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 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 ...