Heading into this weekend, 33 Massachusetts beaches are closed. Here's the full list. The following MA beaches, listed by ...

About 25 beaches were closed Saturday from Pittsfield to Provincetown as temperatures fell from the week’s triple digits to the mid- to high-80s throughout the state. A majority of the beaches were ...

Over two dozen beaches across the Bay State are closed on Wednesday, July 23. Here's where you can't go for a swim.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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, ...