Blue-green algae has been detected in Lough Neagh for the first time in 2025, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) has confirmed. The lough, the UK's largest freshwater lake, has been ...

Save Our Shores, Protect Lough Neagh and our inland Waterways have posted a video claiming that the dreaded algae is back already In a post member Thomas McElhone said: '7th April 2025 western ...

The presence of blue-green algae in Martray Lough near Ballygawley is "disheartening", the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) has said. With the recent good weather ...

Blue-green algae has returned to Lough Neagh with the first confirmed cases of 2025, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) has confirmed. Noxious blooms of the algae covered large parts o ...

Despite the thermal layers, the down puffer jacket, beanie and gloves, and the heavy wool blanket wrapped around my legs, I'm freezing. With each salt-tanged icy gust, the wind feels like it's ...