AGRICULTURE Minister Andrew Muir has denied that an enforcement task force being set up as part of a scheme to clean up Lough Neagh is a “farm-bashing mechanism”.

Toxic blue-green algae in Lough Neagh has potentially begun to wake up again already, with two confirmed reports since the start of 2024.

Blue-green algae has been detected in Lough Neagh at both Traad Point and Kinturk (Curran's Quay).

BBC News NI looks at the pollution issues facing the UK and Ireland's largest lake - and how to fix them.

The Save the Lough Neagh campaign is urging people to gather at the Oxford Island Discovery Centre on Sunday .

Campaigners gathered in Belfast city centre on Saturday to call for urgent action to save Lough Neagh. Those attending the rally in Writers' Square said they were sending a message that they were ...

Blue-green algae from Lough Neagh displayed during Belfast Photo Festival It comes as the festival transforms public spaces with more than 30 exhibitions.

The art exhibition is due open on Friday at Oxford Island Discovery Centre, on the south shore of the lough. The organisers said the exhibition is “art meeting activism” and will show how ...

The ecosystem of Lough Neagh is facing a biodiversity crisis due to a vast algae bloom and the disappearance of its famed flies.

The water lapping against the shore of Lough Neagh is not a healthy blue, but a sickly green. A walk along the canal path at Toome, Co Antrim, reveals just how unwell the lake is. At the lock ...

The responsibility for addressing the Lough’s problems also have a cross border dimension in that 10% of the catchment lies in the Republic of Ireland as its catchment stretches as far as Monaghan.