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.

Empox, the infectious viral disease formerly known as monkeypox, has spread to numerous African countries.

It's also a global threat.

An infectious disease threat in the world is a threat everywhere in the world.

The upside, vaccines are on the way. The

downside more needs to be done to deal with impacts. I'm Marco Wurman and a year after

the expulsion of Armenians from a region inside Azerbaijan we hear about the prospects for peace in a conflict that

goes back decades.

Armenia stands ready to sign the peace agreement with Azerbaijan.

Plus two sisters from Haiti, one here in the U.S. and the other back home, both trying to help people

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