If we don?t stop climate change, Boston will feel like Baltimore

A new study shows how climate change will affect cities in the future. It?s as if they are moving 500 miles south.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreiter_opiodoutreach5_met-11235.jpg Opioid overdose deaths in Mass. fell again in 2018

The 4 percent drop-off makes 2018 the second consecutive year in which overdose deaths declined. Even so, nearly 2,000 died.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/ccmug1-26215.jpg Family of woman killed by airborne manhole cover in 2016 sues MassDOT, two contractors

Caitlin Clavette, a 35-year-old art teacher at a Milton elementary school, was driving to work in 2016 when she was killed near the edge of the Thomas P. O?Neill Jr. Tunnel.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/AFP_1DE376.jpg It?s official: Google will occupy a new tower in Kendall Square

The tech company Wednesday confirmed long-rumored plans that it will fill a new Kendall Square office tower, giving the company room to double its workforce here.

The site of the former Bayside Expo Center (in the background) is now mostly used for parking.

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UMass ready to name developer of 20-acre Bayside Expo Center site

The property?s sale could generate more than $200 million for the cash-starved school.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/wiggs_WellesleyTown_328631.jpg These are the wealthiest towns in the US, according to Bloomberg

A Massachusetts town cracked the top 50 in the annual Bloomberg Richest Places index.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/06/07/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/kreiter_sunriseexercise1_met.jpg Benefits from exercise are caused not just by changes in muscle, but by changes in fat

The dramatic changes that occur in fat cells when you exercise releases factors into the blood that can have positive health effects.

One of the fliers that was affixed to the Granoff Family Hillel Center at Tufts University.

Anti-Israel posters found at Tufts Hillel

About two dozen posters containing offensive messages were found Tuesday morning affixed to a campus Jewish center at Tufts University.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/reading2.jpg Reading man is charged with firing gun near teenager shoveling snow

A SWAT team was called in after a Reading man allegedly fired a shot into the air near a teen who was shoveling snow late Tuesday night.

Bill Kane used a shovel to clear the snow from his van outside his home on East Broadway in South Boston:

Boston-area snow totals are low, but winter isn?t over yet

Boston has seen only 4.7 inches of snow this season, fall less than normal. But there?s still time for us to catch up.

NAMES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/2044b6e678a047b6891e293ae5c04ce6-2044b6e678a047b6891e293ae5c04ce6-9829.jpg Bill Cosby vows no remorse, even if he sits in prison 10 years

Cosby?s stance could leave him to serve the high end of a three- to 10-year prison term, since sex offenders often must show remorse to win parole.

President Donald Trump spoke at a cabinet meeting Tuesday.

Trump is still being coy on border deal ? but he is expected to sign

President Trump isn?t showing his hand yet. But with little Washington appetite for another shutdown, he?s expected to grudgingly accept the border agreement.

Fort Myers , FL - 2/12/2019 - Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Chris Sale throws after completing his morning physical. Boston Red Sox pitchers and catchers reported today for physicals for Red Sox Spring Training at Jet Blue Park in Fort Myers, FL. - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Sports, Reporter: Peter Abraham, Topic: 12Red Sox, LOID: .

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DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Chris Sale makes no promises but says Boston is ?a good place for me?

The Red Sox? standout lefthander gave all the right answers when asked about his contract being up after this season.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/01/18/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/12082011_08crit_1-8118833.jpg Happy Galentine?s Day! Not sure what that is? Here?s a quick rundown

For those who might not be familiar with the unofficial holiday, the concept is pretty simple.

A computer generated image shows the Opportunity rover of NASA.

RIP, Opportunity: NASA rover finally bites the dust on Mars after 15 years

NASA?s Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate just three months but kept going and going, was pronounced dead Wednesday.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/08/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/exerpt0210hero.jpg Who killed Jean McConville? Did a secret archive at Boston College hold clues?

The widowed Irish mother was dragged away from her 10 children in Belfast in 1972. They never heard from her again.

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Love Letters podcast season 2

Is finding love at work a good idea?

In Episode Two of the podcast, a risky work crush involving H.R. and a conversation with an employment lawyer about dating at work in the #MeToo era.

Miss Conduct

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/04/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/miss%20conduct-5131.jpg Advice: A friend tries to get out of paying her share. I?m sick of it.

Everyone else complains when she?s not there, but no one in our group wants to confront her.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/14eaglepic_002.jpg Here?s a picture of a coyote and bald eagle apparently fighting over a deer carcass on a Maine lake

File this one under ?Only in Maine.?

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/031406_humanities_045.jpg With the passing of Harvard scholar Roderick MacFarquhar, is deeper learning dying?

Roderick MacFarquhar?s provocative insights were rooted in real knowledge, not the glib cleverness of cable talking heads.

SHIRLEY LEUNG

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/11/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Leung-6497.jpg Who wants to be the next Partners CEO? Anyone?

The board shouldn?t stick with the Partners Way, which is plucking a doctor from one of its teaching hospitals.

NAMES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/c90b0f43f7194593a99ede683be971f9-24b0a2a1d6814d67ab8bbfe115488e3e-0.jpg Charles Barkley gushes about Bill Belichick, Tom Brady on ?Jimmy Kimmel Live!?

Nothing, it seems, could have prepared Barkley for the moment he came face to face with quarterback Tom Brady.

J.D. Martinez hoists the World Series trophy during the Red Sox parade last fall; Kyrie Irving and Jayson Tatum react during a win in December; Julian Edelman raises the Lombardi Trophy during the Patriots parade in February.

TARA SULLIVAN

Sometimes, it?s chemistry that matters most. Can the Celtics get it together?

The Patriots and Red Sox rode remarkable chemistry all the way to a title. If the Celtics don?t find some of that alchemy soon, is there any chance of a deep playoff run?

Los Angeles, CA 06/15/10: A couple of hours before the game, Celtics fan and comedian Dane Cook was already courtside in his green shirt. The Boston Celtics take on the Los Angeles Lakers in Game Six of the NBA Finals at the Staples Center. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff) section:sports slug:celtics16 26strong

Can comedian Dane Cook make it big ? again?

Arlington native Dane Cook is setting out on tour with new material for the first time in years.

Love Letters: The Podcast

Season Two: How do you meet someone?

Dating in 2019 is?complicated. Frustrating. Sometimes completely exhilarating. In Season 2 of the podcast, Meredith Goldstein goes deep on one of her most-asked questions.

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Special reports

They were the top of their class at Boston public schools. Then life happened

Read a multi-part investigation into how and why the lives of promising Boston valedictorians didn?t quite turn out the way they expected.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Smartphone society

In a world where the smartphone is now ubiquitous, photographers capture daily life in which the personal device is part of the moment.

Real Estate

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/10-beechwood-road-halifax-exterior-side-1024x576$medium-9070.jpg Are we ignoring ? or outright banning ? an easy affordable-housing fix?

Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.

STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2019/02/13/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Duck-8-1-1024x576.jpg What happened to bird flu? How a threat to human health faded from view

Although the number of cases have subsided dramatically, ?we don?t know how the story?s going to end,? says one influenza expert.

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