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![Baseball fans clear the stands as lightning strikes near the Colorado Rockies’ stadium in 2019.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/lightning-safety.jpg?w=800)
Environment
How to stay safe during lighting season
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Environment
The best home weather stations for 2024
![As the planet warms, many of Alaska’s glaciers are retreating. This is destabilizing cliff faces throughout the state’s myriad bays and fjords.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/sailing-alaska.jpg?w=800)
Environment
Sailing in Alaska? Watch out for tsunamis
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Animals
The best cooling dog beds
![A huge thermokarst crater showing the damage to the permafrost and our climate, Batagay, Russia.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/crater.jpg?w=800)
Climate Change
Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ is growing
![While scientists have seen colossal squid before—like this specimen examined by New Zealander researchers in 2014—their interactions have always been with animals that were either pulled from the depths, washed up on shore, or otherwise removed from their natural habitat.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/kraken.jpg?w=800)
Animals
Visiting the kraken at home
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Conservation