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 American ...

After Thoreau made the pond famous in 1854, an influx of tourists and fishermen have come to imperil the ecological outlook of the area. A green mist swirls beneath the surface of the once crystal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has listed Walden Pond and Walden Woods, where Henry David Thoreau wrote his 1854 ...

SUSAN BROUGH has come to the woods in Concord because she wishes to swim deliberately. With broad, powerful strokes, Brough traverses Walden Pond well outside the roped-off area where children splash ...

“It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar,” writes Henry David Thoreau in one of the less-quoted parts of Walden Pond. But is it, I wonder, worth it to go to the ...

From 2010 to 2014, photographer S.B. Walker explored the shores of Walden Pond, where Thoreau's bucolic environment now bustles with recreation and development. S.B. Walker, “Target bag, ice melt” ...

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 ...

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Climate change and recreational activity at Walden Pond may have altered the ecology of this iconic lake during the past 1800 years, affecting the water quality and plankton community, according to a ...

This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Whatever solitude he sought in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts, writer and naturalist Henry David ...

It is one of the great American sententiae, as sonorous and moving as the Gettysburg Address. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ...