About 30 beaches in various cities and towns in Massachusetts are closed Sunday. A majority of the 27 beaches were closed due ...

Over two dozen beaches across the Bay State are closed on Wednesday, July 23. Here's where you can't go for a swim.

Tired of the seaweed and the sand when you head to the ocean? You're in luck. One of the best lakes for freshwater swimming in the country is located right here in Massachusetts, according to Reader's ...

A storied part of our national heritage, Walden Pond and Walden Woods in Massachusetts – where Henry David Thoreau wrote his 1854 classic "Walden" – has been named one of "America's 11 Most Endangered ...

Walden Pond beach in Concord, Mass in 2019. (John Greim/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Update: After public outcry, the Baker administration says it will allow open water ...

On the other hand, maybe he would appreciate the fact that so many still enjoy the serenity that remains at Walden Pond, despite all that’s changed. This segment aired on July 12, 2017. Climate ...

Two centuries after the “Walden” author’s birth, people are still deliberately following in Thoreau’s footsteps to discover Walden Pond, the little lake he immortalized.

Walden Pond is the lowest point in the surrounding area and has no outlets for the excess water, so it will dissipate slowly, through evaporation and aquifer absorption.

A 2001 study of Walden Pond found that more than half of the phosphorus in the water in summer may come from swimmers' urine. At least it's not totally yellow yet.

Walden: An Annotated Edition By Henry David Thoreau Edited by Walter Harding Houghton Mifflin, 349 pages, $30 `Walden,” one of America’s greatest classics, perhaps reaches its highest level as ...

Walden Pond, the Concord natural resource that inspired Henry David Thoreau’s famous book Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is being soiled by years and years’ worth of swimmers’ pee.. That’s ...