Athletes jump into the water to compete in the swimming race in the Seine, during the mixed's relay triathlon, at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in central Paris, on Aug. 5, 2024.

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But a downpour on Friday and Saturday caused bacteria levels in the river to rise once again, prompting triathlon practice events to be cancelled Monday. Big Number $1.52 billion (€1.4 billion).

France had spent $1.5 billion to clean the river in preparation for this summer's Olympics. The Seine was declared biologically dead in the 1960s, meaning the toxic environments cannot sustain life.

Prior to the Paris Olympics getting underway, France spent an estimated 1.4 billion euros to clean the polluted river. Olympic organizers have tested the Seine for bacteria contamination prior to ...

UPDATE: After being postponed on Tuesday due to pollution in the Seine river, the Olympics triathlon swimming competition took place on Wednesday morning. Both the women’s and men’s races are ...

Parisians are upset not just at the astronomical sums France has spent cleaning up the river, rumored to be north of $1 billion. They are also angry at the strain the Games, which kick off next ...

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Environmental engineers routinely use mathematical models to study the spread of chemical pollutants through groundwater and rivers. Now, a team of scientists in France has solved one of these models, ...

Hundreds of pounds of butter polluted one of France's "prettiest" rivers after an industrial accident at a nearby dairy plant. Firefighters and workers at the plant were unclear of how the butter ...