Climate adaptation as part of the curriculum
Marketplace Morning Report
Marketplace
4.5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Agriculture is notoriously susceptible to the whims of the elements. Farmers and ranchers can see their entire livelihoods turn on one bad hailstorm or ill-timed heat wave, which are more frequent as our planet continues to warm. Today, we'll head to Colorado to hear about an apprenticeship program that's embedding climate literacy into its teachings. But first: the value of the dollar, this morning's web outages, and pain for small- and mid-sized businesses.
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| 0:57.8 | It wasn't your device, it was the internet with widespread problems this morning. |
| 1:03.1 | I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. A problem with Amazon's remote computer service disrupted |
| 1:08.0 | online operations early today at social media sites, newspapers, airlines, car service apps, and more. |
| 1:14.7 | While Amazon now says most of its cloud services are returning to normal, the original problem appears to have centered at its operations in northern Virginia and was not a malicious hack. |
| 1:25.1 | The crypto exchange, Coinbase had trouble. Same with Robin Hood, |
| 1:28.4 | the online stock trading site, the video game Fortnite. The British Bank Lloyd lift the car |
| 1:33.6 | service in some areas. The incident highlights how dependence so much of the digital world has |
| 1:38.1 | become on a few cloud computing providers. The U.S. dollar is up slightly this morning. It had |
| 1:43.7 | fallen 1% in about a week and 10% since mid-January. |
| 1:48.0 | This cuts in different ways, marketplaces Mitchell Hartman explains. |
| 1:51.6 | Recently, the dollar's been weakened by several factors. First, worries about U.S. regional banks. |
| 1:57.6 | Also, President Trump's renewed tariff threats against China, says Maurice Obstfeld at the |
| 2:02.8 | Peterson Institute for International Economics. Trade tensions escalate. People worry about |
| 2:08.1 | more negative consequences for U.S. growth. That's negative for the dollar. |
| 2:12.6 | And with growth flagging, the Federal Reserve has signaled it'll keep cutting U.S. interest rates, |
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