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 ...

Over a year since I broke the story about how Lough Neagh was floundering under the weight of toxic blue-green algae that killed animals, cost jobs, sparked water worries and hit fisheries ...

Choose one of the loughs as a focus. Create a spider diagram with the name of the lough at the centre. Around this, write all the people, jobs and wildlife that depend on the loughs.

The Lough Neagh: Blue-Green Algae Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) is one of the 37 actions contained in the Lough ...

Three companies have been selected for the first phase of a project to monitor Lough Neagh from space. They each get a share of £360,000 to develop satellite technology and data that could be ...

Swimming could resume in Lough Neagh in a matter of months, but only if there are suitable weather conditions. Signs warning against swimming in the lough were put up over the summer due to blue ...

It comes as the Stormont Executive works to halt an environmental crisis at Lough Neagh where noxious blooms of blue-green algae have covered the surface of the water across the past two summers.

From increased sewage spills to blue-green algae in Lough Neagh, 2024 has been the year in which we all became aware of the poor state of our water bodies. As a water user and conservation ...

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.