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.

Sri Lanka's economic recovery takes center stage as voters there pick a new president.

Live from the UK. This is the Marketplace

Morning Report from the BBC World Service. I'm Stuart Clarkson in Fort Leanna Burn

today. Good morning. So two years on from an economic crisis that left Sri Lanka almost bankrupt and in political turmoil,

the country is voting in a new president this weekend.

Back then, inflation was at 70% and basics like food, cooking gas and medicine were scarce.

The upcoming election is seen by many as a referendum on the current government's economic

agenda.

Inflation has eased and tourists are back in the country but living costs are still high and small businesses are still feeling the pinch as the BBC's action as Shukler reports.

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