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.

How might rate cuts affect the housing market?

From Marketplace, I'm Sabrie Benashoreore, in for David Brancaccio.

In August, the number of new homes just starting to be built surged.

It was up almost 10% from the month before.

And then yesterday, the Fed cut interest rates by a half a point, interest rates that can influence

mortgages.

So what does this all mean for the housing market?

Diane Swank is chief economist, the audit tax and advisory firm KPMG and joins us to talk about it.

Hi Diane.

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