As Paris braces for a heatwave this weekend, a little-known network of underground pipes will be cooling the Louvre museum ...

The world is officially a month from the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics — and new tests just revealed that one of the Games' focal points for events, the Seine River in Paris, isn't ready.

So, Paris Olympic organizers decided to invest $1.5 billion in cleaning up the river—and its image. They promised to make the Seine safe enough for Olympic triathletes and open-water swimmers to ...

PARIS — With the Paris Olympics less than two weeks away, a question hangs over the Games: Will the Seine River be clean enough for athletes to swim in? Triathlon and marathon swimming are ...

Billions of dollars have been spent to clean up the River Seine in time for this month's 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. With the opening ceremonies now upon us, all eyes are on the city to see if ...

Paris — The first Olympic swimming event in the Seine river has been postponed as tests of the river water continue. The swimming leg of the men's triathlon was originally scheduled to happen ...

Following concerns about contamination of the Seine River and whether it will be safe for open water marathon swimmers and triathletes this summer, Paris Olympics organizers shared they do ...

Highlighting the Seine River is a central theme of the Paris Olympics. But will the river be clean enough for swimming competitions? PARIS — The world’s most romantic river traces a long arc ...

PARIS — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip Wednesday in the Seine River, fulfilling a promise to show that the long-polluted waterway was clean enough to host swimming competitions during the ...

Swimming has been off-limits in the long-polluted Seine River in Paris for more than a century. So with Olympic swimming events on tap for the river, the city poured in $1.5 billion (1.4 billion ...