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.

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).

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 ...

Power plant operators in Switzerland and France idled reactors so that discharged cooling water would not harm wildlife in ...

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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 ...

Before the original date of Anne Hidalgo's swim, the hashtag “jechiedanslaSeine” (“I’m pooping in the Seine”) trended on social media as some threatened to defecate upstream.

Sixteen departments have been placed on red alert, the highest level of warning, and 68 on orange alert as France faces the ...

From swimming in the Seine to upsetting the British, via the future of Paris and green algae in Brittany, Inside France is ...

France spent $1.5 billion on a nine-year clean up the Seine which had been closed to swimmers for 100 years because of the flow of industrial waste and sewage into the river.

"Alarming" levels of microplastic have been found in major rivers across Europe according to scientists in 14 studies published simultaneously Monday. "The pollution is present in all European ...

This is far from the 40 microplastics per cubic metre recorded in the world's 10 most polluted rivers -- the Yellow River, Yangtze, Mekong, Ganges, Nile, Niger, Indus, Amur, Pearl and Hai -- which ...