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.

More in our coverage of how companies pull us apart and bring us together in a polarized election year today following the money.

I'm David Brancaccio first with the Biden administration now urging

internationally based shipping companies to up their contract offer to striking

cargo handlers immobilizing ports from Maine to Texas. A report now from

Houston and early effects on trucking. Here's Marketplace's Elizabeth Troval.

Story Conrad with Gulf States trucking is trying to reposition the company's drivers so they

don't lose out on work, but it's not so simple.

When these set of drivers are dedicated to Fort Work,

moving them over to something different is it's hard and it takes time to build that up.

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