Source: Belfast Telegraph

Articles from this source (6)

Beekeepers stung by wettest July on record

  2023-09-18 (or before) in Belfast Telegraph

Beekeepers are counting the cost of freak summer weather that left the insects and locally produced honey at risk.

  Tagged under: Insects | Bees

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Environmentalists hold ‘wake’ for Lough Neagh over toxic algae bloom

  2023-09-18 (or before) in Belfast Telegraph

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. Lough Neagh supplies 40% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water. It also sustains a major eel fishing industry.

  Tagged under: Fish

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Lough Neagh has become a scene of Biblical disaster, and Stormont was central to its destruction

  2023-09-18 (or before) in Belfast Telegraph

It’s killing dogs. It’s killing swans. And almost half of Northern Ireland is drinking water drawn from a source laced with it.

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Action group wants new single government body to protect Lough Neagh from algae poisoning

  2023-09-18 (or before) in Belfast Telegraph

A new action group has been set up to lobby for urgent steps to protect Lough Neagh which is currently being poisoned by high levels of toxic blue-green algae.

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Watch: Sam McBride's in-depth look at Lough Neagh's blue-green algae crisis

  2023-09-18 (or before) in Belfast Telegraph

It’s killing dogs. It’s killing swans - and almost half of Northern Ireland is drinking water drawn from a source laced with it. The Belfast Telegraph spent a day on Lough Neagh, during which we observed a dead swan in the Toome Canal, lying in a thick toxic sludge of what is commonly known as ‘blue-green algae’.

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UK well off track to meet 2030s carbon-cutting goals, official figures project

  2022-10-25 (or before) in Belfast Telegraph

The UK is currently on track to miss its legal climate targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the mid 2030s by a huge margin, Government figures show.

  Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases

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