Articles by Staff Writer Jake Bittle
Jake Bittle is a staff writer at Grist who covers climate impacts and adaptation. His book about climate migration, "The Great Displacement," is published by Simon & Schuster.
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![A car and market shop in floodwaters in Pajaro, California.]()
![A car and market shop in floodwaters in Pajaro, California.]()
How rising temperatures are intensifying California’s atmospheric rivers
As storms get warmer and wetter, the state's flood control system is struggling to keep up.
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![Oil pipelines stretch across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska.]()
![Oil pipelines stretch across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska.]()
Biden approves Willow oil project in Alaska despite campaign pledge
The administration approved the controversial ConocoPhillips venture while also limiting future drilling in other parts of Alaska.
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![Storm clouds gather behind a home that was destroyed by Hurricane Ida, in Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana.]()
![Storm clouds gather behind a home that was destroyed by Hurricane Ida, in Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana.]()
As Louisiana’s coast disappears, its historic communities are disappearing too
New levees are too late to stop the exodus for bayou villages like Pointe-aux-Chenes.
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Are the feds sacrificing endangered salmon to help potato farmers?
Tribes say the decision to reduce water flow "has more to do with potatoes than it does fish.”
