One of the biggest hurdles to the cleanup is the intricate and ancient ... the Seine before being treated and sent back into the river. Paris is also constructing 26 new swimming pools, walled ...

With a year to go to the Olympics, Paris is in the final phase of a historic clean-up which will soon see swimmers and divers back in the River Seine. Banned for a century because of the filthy ...

In a recent post on social media, the collective documented the eviction of minors from their camp in the tunnel near Paris's Les Halles shopping district, stating: "Police but no solution.

The Games run from July 26-Aug. 11. To clean up the river, Paris invested 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in building infrastructure to catch more stormwater when it rains — the same water that ...

For centuries, the Seine River has been Paris’s dumping ground. A billion-dollar cleanup is trying to make it swimmable again. The history of Paris is inextricably linked to the river that flows ...

An Olympic rower has helped volunteers with an effort to clean up a local river. Sam Redgrave, who won a silver medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics, said it was "inspiring" to see the work being done ...

the city of Paris breathed a sigh of relief. It's been a long slog to get the river clean enough for the Games, and it's taken a lot of money. The controversial plan to clean up the Seine cost $1. ...

Athletes dive into the Seine River from the Alexander III Bridge on the start of the first leg of the women's triathlon test event for the Paris Olympics this past summer. (Michel Euler/AP ...

Nearly 20,000 people were evicted in the Ile-de-France region between April 2023 and September 2024, in the run-up to and during the Paris Olympics, according to a report drawn up by a collective of ...