PARIS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - With the price of gas soaring, swimming pools across France are lowering water temperatures or switching off heating altogether, which has left swimmers in one suburban Paris ...

The “wild swimming” trend — aka open-water swimming, or taking dips in lakes, rivers, streams or even the sea — isn't exactly new. Still, it has been increasing in popularity over the past decade, ...

Often beautiful in theory, many ponds end up as stagnant corners of the garden that don’t quite earn their keep. But what if you could swap your unloved water feature for something a little more ...

If you’re fortunate enough to have a swimming pond, why would you possibly want a pool? However, among the four immediate members of my family I’m the only one who feels that way, and swims in our ...

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I arrived at Walden Pond State Reservation just after sunrise, recalling that a certain local resident named Thoreau once wrote, “Morning brings back the heroic ages.” Only a few cars were scattered ...