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.

Seaports from Boston to Houston are back in business.

I'm David Brancaccio.

Doc workers have suspended their strike after a new offer from shipping companies,

a strike that had immobilized vast swaths of America's supply chains.

This is not a tentative contract deal at this stage. It's a temporary

agreement for cargo handlers to work ahead of a new deadline in January now.

Marketplace's Nova Safo has more. The two sites did not reveal details of the latest wage offer that

ended a strike that had threatened to upend supply chains and race shipping and

consumer prices, but going into the strike the head of the dock workers union, Harold Daggitt, said they were demanding a $5 an hour

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