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. Violence ratchets up between Israel and Hezbollah and Lebanon.

Deadly airstrikes and long-range rockets suggest a grim path forward.

It's very hard to see how both parties avoid something even bigger than what we've seen so far.

I'm Marker Wurman.

And I'm Carolyn Beeler, where the conflict in the Middle East could be headed

and microplastics.

They are literally everywhere. They're in hundreds of different species and that includes us humans and they're getting to us through the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe.

But there is a solution. Plus medical professionals in Canada are

saving lives with artificial intelligence. The tool is an early warning system. It

essentially provides an early warning signal to clinicians about when a patient might be at high risk of deteriorating.

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