Planning a trip to Walden Pond to go swimming? You might want to reconsider. Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation officials said that the beach popularized by Henry David Thoreau ...

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 ...

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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.

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CONCORD — Mario Roman and Jenasis Valenzuela have long enjoyed summer weekends at Walden Pond. But when the couple arrived on a sweltering day last week, they found a large section of the beach was ...

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 ...

Researchers are looking for ways to save Walden Pond, and they have a request for swimmers: Stop urinating in the water. The group told the Boston Globe urine is providing nutrients to micro-organisms ...