A half-an-hour drive from Boston, Massachusetts, in the town of Concord, sits one of the most revered literary landscapes in ...

The Commonwealth is full of pretty places. From Walden Pond to the Wood End Lighthouse in Provincetown, Massachusetts is a state where people can find pockets of wonder in almost everywhere. However, ...

and when the ice melted on Walden Pond. Some 160 years later, Richard Primack, a biologist at Boston University, is using Thoreau’s handwritten data to track how the climate has changed in this ...

Concord, once a farming community, is now a busy suburb—Boston is just a half-hour drive from Walden Pond—and expanses of warmth-absorbing concrete and blacktop have created a "heat island" of ...

Thoreau (1817-1862) was in his late 20s when he built himself a hut on the shores of Walden Pond in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, where he lived a life of self-sufficiency in natural surroundings ...