Paris’s Seine could be the next river granted legal personhood under plans announced by Mayor Anne Hidalgo yesterday. Paris ...

PARIS — After years of promises and more than $1 billion of investment, Paris’s once-filthy river is finally swimmable. And the mayor proved it just days before the July 26 Olympic deadline.

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 ...

Paris isn’t Paris without the River Seine. The 780-kilometer-long river, which runs through the city of light and curves around the mighty Eiffel Tower, not only hosts tourists taking in the ...

French authorities want to give legal rights to the River Seine to better defend the world-famous waterway in court and ...

The Bièvre – a tributary of the Seine that rises in Guyancourt, Yvelines, and flows into the city near the Gare d’Austerlitz ...

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 ...

Languages: English. The Seine river remains too dirty to accommodate the Paris Olympics triathlon and open-water swimming events in just a few weeks, according to river test results from earlier ...

Mayor Erin Mendenhall Ceremonial smoke in the colors of the France flag appear over the Seine River in Paris, France, during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26 ...

French authorities want to give legal rights to the River Seine to better defend the world-famous waterway in court and ...