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Jake Bittle, Grist

Jake Bittle is a contributing writer at Grist and freelance reporter who lives in Brooklyn, New York. His book about climate migration is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.

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The water level is visibly low in the foothills behind a concrete dam, with some trees and greenery visible in the front and mountains in the distance under a cloud-streaked blue sky.
How the Western Drought Has Increased Carbon Emissions
Hydropower loss during the California drought added 121 million metric tons of carbon emissions over 20 years — about the same as putting 1.3 million more cars on the road.
An aerial view of a flooded neighborhood of homes and La Reina Mini Market, with power lines and telephone poles rising out of the brown, murky water and a black car halfway submerged in the middle of the image.
How Rising Temperatures Are Intensifying California's Atmospheric Rivers
California's storms — including "atmospheric rivers" that bring lots of rain and flooding — are getting warmer and wetter because of climate change.
A composite illustration of a thermometer, $100 bills, credit cards and and checks overlaid on a globe map with a red-orange gradient in the background
Five Ways Climate Change Made Our Lives More Expensive in 2022
From rising grocery and utility bills to skyrocketing insurance premiums, warming temperatures from climate change hit our wallets hard in 2022.
Farmer Joe Del Bosque, of Los Banos, watches as a tractor driven by his employee destroys a 70-acre organic asparagus field in Firebaugh, California.
In an Era of Drought, an Obscure Water Contract Is Pitting California Farmers Against Each Other
The so-called “exchange contract” has created a surreal split-screen effect: One group of farmers has ample water. Another has almost none.
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