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 ...

We met Primack on a recent warm and sunny morning at Walden Pond, where as we headed out for a walk he ticked off some of the plant species that have disappeared in this area since Thoreau wrote ...

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 ...

Two dozen beaches are closed for swimming in Massachusetts, mostly because of unsafe levels of bacteria in the water.

Squam Lake in New Hampshire, Walden Pond in Massachusetts and Echo Lake in Maine were among the 26 locations, which ranged ...

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 ...

When Henry David Thoreau’s attempt to simplify his life took him to the shores of Walden Pond in 1845, the Massachusetts reserve was a quiet haven enclosed by tall oaks and pines and wreathed ...

On Aug. 22, 1860, Henry David Thoreau measured the water temperature at the bottom of Walden Pond, 100 feet below the surface. In his journal, ...

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 ...