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

Heading into this weekend, 33 Massachusetts beaches are closed. Here's the full list. The following MA beaches, listed by ...

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 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.

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.

Plenty of people have taken a whiz in Walden Pond since writer Henry David Thoreau sat by its shores 160-plus years ago lost in contemplation. And that, according to a new study, ...

Walden Pond is full sediment and phytoplankton because we want to swim in the calm waters that Thoreau used to look out on. Yellowstone’s wolves and trout contract diseases brought by humans, ...

This article is more than 4 years old. Update: After public outcry, the Baker administration says it will allow open water swimming at Walden Pond again — with some caveats. Read more here.

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 ...

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.