Walden Pond’s shrinking shoreline will likely stay submerged until at least the fall thanks to an extra 10 inches of rain. Skip to Main Content Open Close Menu. Home News.

There are 20 beaches closed in Massachusetts on Sunday, July 6. Beaches were closed across 18 communities, many due to high bacteria levels, according to the state’s Department of Public Health (DPH).

When the divisive, sometimes bitter tenor of politics threatens to overwhem, our writer finds shelter from the storm in ...

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

The pond also experienced unusually high water levels during the summer of 2010 and was closed to visitors for several weeks. “I fear we’re going to be seeing more of this,” Anderson said.

Henry David Thoreau is rightly known for the time he spent at Walden Pond near his home in Concord, Massachusetts. But a new book offers a different take on the famous author and naturalist ...

Just off Route 2 in Concord, 18 miles west of Boston, Walden Pond’s public beach, walking trails, and facsimile of Thoreau’s cabin are thronged with visitors in the summer.

We take a walk around Walden Pond with biologist Richard Primack, who uses Thoreau’s records to look for effects of climate change on area wildlife.

A 2001 study of Walden Pond found that more than half of the phosphorus in the water in summer may come from swimmers' urine. At least it's not totally yellow yet.

If Henry David Thoreau were alive today, he might re-title his most famous work "On Golden Pond." And he would be pissed. That's because Walden Pond, the once-pristine jewel that inspired the ...

Walden Pond: An endangered treasure 02:39. 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 ...