Dozens of beaches across Massachusetts are closed on Tuesday. Nearly 40 beaches were closed mostly due to high bacteria ...

S ALEM, MA — Nearly 40 Massachusetts beaches were off limits to swimming heading into the third heat wave of the summer — an ...

A storied part of our national heritage, Walden Pond and Walden Woods in Massachusetts – where Henry David Thoreau wrote his ...

If you are planning to cool off by heading to the beach for the 4th of July​ weekend, you'll want to be sure your favorite ...

Three dozen beaches were closed for swimming in Massachusetts on Friday. The majority of those closures are due to high ...

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.

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, 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.

Walden Pond beach in Concord, Mass in 2019. (John Greim/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Five days after banning open water swimming at Concord's Walden Pond as part of a ...

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, ...