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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![Collage: collapsed bridge over San Joaquin River in 1997 and flooded houses in Stockton in 2023; paintbrush strokes across top of image]()
![Collage: collapsed bridge over San Joaquin River in 1997 and flooded houses in Stockton in 2023; paintbrush strokes across top of image]()
California’s next flood could destroy one of its most diverse cities. Will lawmakers try to save it?
Climate change could submerge Stockton beneath 10 feet of water. The city's aging levees aren't prepared.
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![The closed New York Stock Exchange is barricaded with sand bags during the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.]()
![The closed New York Stock Exchange is barricaded with sand bags during the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.]()
How vulnerable is Wall Street to climate change? The Fed wants to find out.
The Federal Reserve is putting the country's biggest banks to a test.
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![The Amazon Fort Powhatan Solar Farm in Disputanta, Virginia.]()
![The Amazon Fort Powhatan Solar Farm in Disputanta, Virginia.]()
US emissions rose in 2022. Here’s why that’s not as bad as it sounds.
As renewables overtook coal, economic growth outpaced the rise in carbon emissions.
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![Fooding by the Highway 92 West in Half Moon Bay, California.]()
![Fooding by the Highway 92 West in Half Moon Bay, California.]()
Will California’s ‘atmospheric river’ storms end the drought?
Heavy rains may refill reservoirs, but they won't solve the state's broader water crisis.
