The aqua-blue swimming pool is an icon of suburbia, right alongside traffic-snarled roads and bright-green front lawns. But in an era when even the White House is planting a food garden, the swimming ...

Growing up playing in the frigid ponds of Wisconsin, Rex Boggs became used to sharing a pool with fish, frogs and egrets. For him, it was the way swimming ought to be. So when he and his wife Katy ...

Summer brings daily storms in the Sunshine State, and with the rain, you need to control flooding in some neighborhoods. Florida is swimming in 76,000 stormwater ponds. Designed to control flooding, ...

A draft management plan for Buffalo River State Park, which is in a public review stage, suggests converting the sand-bottom ...

MAUREPAS, La. — Why travel to a beach when you can have one in your own backyard? That’s the idea behind this Louisiana company about 50 miles northwest of New Orleans. Zydeco Construction specializes ...

“Restricting open water swimming at Walden Pond is passive and negative, and it infringes on our reasonable right to access the natural assets of our state,” the letter-writers said. “For many of us, ...