‘Wherever the work is, we’re all going’: Graphic novelist on working in Alberta’s tar sands

North Atlantic right whales are shrinking in size as they struggle to survive environmental havoc

Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless

America’s windiest spot looks to harness the ocean winds with some British help

Lawsuit accusing ExxonMobil of ignoring risks from climate change moves forward

How do you market the UK in a time of Brexit?

If Trump wants a wall, eminent domain is the final frontier

It’s not just witches. New England has a history with vampires, too.

‘Leaf peeping’ is huge in New England. Will climate change alter tourism?

A Boston hospital promotes patient health with its own rooftop farm

The feast-or-famine life of lobstering in Maine

The future of fishing is big data and artificial intelligence

Residents worry Massachusetts waste incinerator is contaminating waterways

Nantucket’s bluffs and beaches are crumbling in the face of storms and rising seas

More states join the fight to reduce global warming

On Nantucket, a teenage migrant gets swept up in a crackdown on Salvadoran gangs

How SpongeBob SquarePants is helping one Syrian woman preserve her culture for her daughter

A black church in Boston says it’s called to be a sanctuary

For businesses that boom in the summer, Trump’s H-2B visa expansion is too little too late

Worldwide, nearly 100,000 college-ready Syrians can’t get higher education

A massive ICE raid in this town didn’t stop undocumented labor — or illegal immigration

‘Implicit bias’ may account for a glaring disparity in health care screening

After Trump’s victory, a city debates offering ‘sanctuary’ to undocumented immigrants

This teen is creating the first Afghan, wheelchair-bound superhero

One of the largest ‘test tubes’ in science is an 8,000-acre forest in New Hampshire

Massachusetts pushes to brew up new green businesses to help fight climate change

Boston high school senior uses art to ease racial tensions

A struggling Colombian village is revived in East Boston, but it could soon fade away

These runners from Ethiopia take inspiration from Boston Marathon’s defending champion

Two young filmmakers grapple with their high school memories of the Boston marathon bomber

They fled war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and found stability in Boston

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons’ new show explores Cuba’s sugar trade and her own exile

Delivering newspapers is tough work, but it allows this immigrant to work two jobs and keep his kids in a good school district

No snow, record high temperatures — but PLENTY of salt

‘Nobody knows their story’ — A psychologist gives her refugee people a voice

This champion of bilingualism remembers her mother’s stories of being paddled in school for speaking Spanish

For Darlene Love, a Christmas without David Letterman?

She survived hunger and homelessness. Then she had to figure out her identity.

Resilience: This Boston Marathon bombing survivor could teach a course on it

Don’t let the name fool you. The ‘Snotbot’ drone could innovate how we track whales.

The reason New England was snowed under — and California went dry

Boston Marathon bomber apologizes at sentencing hearing

Tanzid Sakib’s first experience with an American school literally left him on the floor

Here’s what eighth graders can teach us about perpetuating stereotypes

Vietnamese immigrant raises fresh shrimp in Boston — one indoor vat at a time

Tsarnaev sentenced to death for Boston Marathon bombing

What the Tsarnaev death penalty form looks like

What a frozen day at the beach looks like when the waves turn to slush

How the warming Arctic might be behind Boston’s deep freeze

At New Year’s tables across China, this year’s culinary bling: Maine lobster

How is the world getting both a) warmer and b) snowier in some places? Here’s how.

Here’s the story of Captain John Smith you didn’t get from the Disney flick

A colonial-era drink called switchel is making a 21st century comeback

Hiking once saved this Cambodian refugee’s life — and now it’s his therapy

Native Americans get the chance to tell their side of the Pilgrim story

Some Portuguese immigrants feel isolated as they grow old in their adopted home

A teen’s parents are allowed to stay in the US, but he still faces deportation

How to make your coffee just like James Bond

Here’s how the low-rent lobster became an expensive global star

It’s not every day that workers fight for a beloved CEO — and win