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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![Collage: dried up reservoir, cows drinking from a water trough, greenhouses with marijuana plants]()
![Collage: dried up reservoir, cows drinking from a water trough, greenhouses with marijuana plants]()
Water thieves abound in dry California. Why are they so hard to catch?
A short-staffed state agency struggles to catch rogue water users.
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![Map of Chico, California, with bottom half covered in a photo of a wildfire and a line of flames bisecting the two images]()
![Map of Chico, California, with bottom half covered in a photo of a wildfire and a line of flames bisecting the two images]()
This California city needs housing. But is a new development destined to burn?
Still reeling from the 2018 Camp Fire, Chico residents are divided over a large new subdivision planned in the path of the last blaze.
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![Floodwater surrounds a farm near Craig, Missouri.]()
![Floodwater surrounds a farm near Craig, Missouri.]()
9 in 10 US counties have experienced a climate disaster in the last decade, report finds
Climate change is here and “all taxpayers are paying for it.”
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![Maura Healey speaks to attendees of the Massachusetts Democratic Party's election-night event.]()
![Maura Healey speaks to attendees of the Massachusetts Democratic Party's election-night event.]()
What the midterm elections mean for the climate — so far
As control of Congress leans right, hope for action shifts to the White House and states.
