The city of Paris is seeking legal personhood for the Seine river. If the resolution is passed in parliament, it would mean that the waterway and its ecosystem would be granted “the right to exist” ...

The latest water quality tests on the Seine show that the the river is still too polluted to swim in. And with a range of water sports scheduled to take place along the Seine in central Paris during ...

With 35 days before the start of Paris' Olympic Games, last-minute preparations are being made to ready the city, particularly to ensure that swimming events will be possible in the river Seine. Some ...

When Olympic triathletes plunged into the Seine river close to the Alexandre III bridge in Paris on July 31, they were making history—and not just by going for gold. The event, which also saw the ...

PARIS — The men’s triathlon race, set to take place Tuesday morning, has been delayed a day due to unsafe water pollution levels in the River Seine, Olympics organizers said. But the International ...

Nobody was hurt and all were rescued after a bus driver in training hit a parked car and veered into the river near Paris, ...

PARIS — After months of speculation about whether the Seine River would be clean enough for Olympic athletes to compete in it, officials deemed the water safe for swimming after a last-minute test.

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 Tuesday ...

PARIS — Meandering down the Seine R iver, the light breeze, gentle current and the sun’s glistening rays weren’t the only things the three kayakers were hoping to catch on a warm spring day — they ...