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Jake Bittle

Jake Bittle is a staff writer at Grist covering climate change. His book about climate migration is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in February 2023.

An artist’s rendering of a flooded Houston neighborhood. Bits of flotsam delineate the tide’s farthest-reaching point, while houses just beyond remain untouched, bordered by white picket fences.

On the Waterfronts

January 6, 2020
When Hurricane Harvey struck Houston in August 2017, Giselle Mendoza was coaching gym class at Earl & Hazel Harris Elementary School on the city’s northern edge, about a mile from her house. As more than thirty inches of rain filled creeks, culverts, streets, and empty ...

Mind Over Matter

August 14, 2019
Williamson is neither a kooky radical nor a spiritual crusader, but rather a thinly disguised conservative moralist.

Unlikely Journeys

March 14, 2019
Reading great literature makes us beautiful and wise, sure, but reading campaign memoirs makes us informed citizens.