Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive

It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change.

This could be the warmest year on record.

Climate change is here.

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.

A little bit of deja vu at some of the nation's ports from Marketplace.

I'm Sabrie Benashore in for David Brancaccio.

More on ports in a sec. First, Congress has approved a temporary spending bill to keep the government

open for another few months.

lawmakers are leaving the big funding decisions until the end of the year, as Marketplace's

Nancy Marshall Gensler reports.

The bill Congress passed and sent to President Biden would mostly keep government spending

at current levels except for an extra $231 million for the

Secret Service to bolster protection of presidential candidates.

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