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.

Studying abroad, it's one of the ways young Americans can experience life outside the US.

I make sure that students are aware of the prospects of how of a life changing experience that can be.

I'm Carolyn Beeler.

And I'm Marco Werman.

Today a special hour on the various paths

Americans take to study and work abroad.

I became fluent in Turkish about a couple years ago,

and so I found that to be a useful asset.

We'll hear how one US student fulfilled his dream

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