A half-an-hour drive from Boston, Massachusetts, in the town of Concord, sits one of the most revered literary landscapes in the world: the 2,680-acre Walden Woods and Walden Pond State Reservation.

Human activity around the pristine pond where Henry David Thoreau wrote his famous book Walden, or, Life in the Woods is altering its ecosystem, new research finds. Leslie Katz led a team that ...

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 according to ...

THIS IS BREAKING AT 7:00 TONIGHT. AUTHORITIES ARE IDENTIFYING NOW THE BODY THAT WAS FOUND IN THE LYNN WOODS RESERVATION IS BRIAN LOPEZ. THE TEEN HAD BEEN MISSING SINCE FRIDAY. THIS IS SKY FIVE OVER ...

After being closed for half a year, the trails at Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat are again open, and spring migrants are arriving. On our first foray around the ponds since the closure, we watched ...

Walden Pond, shown in 2003, has a big problem with swimmers who urinate in the pond, fouling the water and damaging the famed pond’s ecosystem, according a new scientific report. Naturalist and ...

CONCORD — Open water swimming is no more at Walden Pond, following an announcement by the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation on Friday. DCR said swimming will only be permitted to ...

The Walden Pond oasis has been shut down to swimming because of elevated bacteria levels after the recent deluge of rain. Walden Pond is the latest Massachusetts waterbody that has a “No Swimming” red ...

Update: After public outcry, the Baker administration says it will allow open water swimming at Walden Pond again — with some caveats. Read more here. Boston might like to think of itself as the “hub ...

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