About 30 beaches were closed Friday from Pittsfield to Yarmouth as temperatures feel like 100 degrees. A majority of the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...