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.

In the data center hub of Virginia, the AI Boom sounds more like a buzz. From American public media this is marketplace tech

I'm Megan McCarty Carino. Just about 30 miles outside Washington, D.C. wherelands, civil war markers and bedroom communities of Northern Virginia

converge is another kind of capital.

This part of the

part of the Commonwealth, made up of several neighboring counties,

mostly windowless humming buildings,

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