Articles by Staff Writer Jake Bittle
Jake Bittle is a staff writer at Grist, covering climate change, energy, and natural disasters. He is the author of The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration. He is writing a book about Kern County, California, and is currently a New America fellow.
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![Jairo Estrada, left, and Juan Espinoza work to get one of their family's car off their flooded property in Allensworth, California. Portions of the town have flooded as Tulare Lake reappears.]()
![Jairo Estrada, left, and Juan Espinoza work to get one of their family's car off their flooded property in Allensworth, California. Portions of the town have flooded as Tulare Lake reappears.]()
The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley
Draining the lake allowed agriculture to thrive, but left the region vulnerable to floods.
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![A man fills a water tank intended for drought-affected livestock from a community well on the Navajo Nation, south of Tuba City, Arizona.]()
![A man fills a water tank intended for drought-affected livestock from a community well on the Navajo Nation, south of Tuba City, Arizona.]()
Supreme Court hears Navajo demands for Colorado River water rights
The Biden administration told justices it doesn't have an obligation to bring more water to the reservation.
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The dubious economic calculus behind the Willow project
The ConocoPhillips venture is supposed to secure energy independence and Alaskan prosperity. It probably won’t achieve either.
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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.
