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As hurricane Florence looms off the US East Coast and a 聽threatens the Philippines, each brewing up a ahead of making landfall, first thoughts go to the safety of those evacuating and of any who鈥檝e had to stay and brace.

The storms will arrive, then leave. Long recovery will follow. will be reviewed. And as the impact is assessed 鈥� including in the United States the possible in an agricultural region 鈥� a background debate will be recharged:

How much is humanity contributing to the preconditions for severe weather, and what more might it be doing to change them?

It鈥檚 hard to ignore that the US administration to make it easier for companies to release methane, a major greenhouse gas. But others focused on a helpful act of intake: An innovative against an 88,000-ton 鈥済arbage patch鈥� in the Pacific Ocean.

What might become of that material? There鈥檚 standard recycling for now. But, in a small step, researchers at two British universities have just produced evidence of a way to use light to turn . While still prohibitively at scale, hydrogen power (derived through a chemical reaction, not combustion) has, as its 鈥渆mission鈥� 鈥� water.

One hopeful new cycle to consider as a hot planet makes itself felt.

Now to our five stories for your Thursday, including three on reaches for recovery: of many Americans a decade after a stock-market collapse, of college students confronting addiction, and of a deeply stressed California river-dweller.