Benji Jones
Environmental Correspondent
Benji Jones is an environmental correspondent at Vox, where he covers biodiversity loss and climate change. Recently, he wrote about a secret wildlife wonderland in Appalachia, the spread of invasive snakes in Puerto Rico, and the people in NYC who care for pigeons, possums, and squirrels in their homes.
Before joining Vox, Benji was a senior energy reporter at Business Insider, where he covered the oil industry and the rise of clean tech. His coverage exposed Exxon’s employee ranking system, misleading tactics in the solar energy industry, and the false promise of algae biofuel. His writing has also appeared in National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Audubon magazine, and elsewhere.
Benji was a researcher and ecologist prior to his career in journalism. He has an MS in ecology and evolution.
Benji is from Iowa (where he has chased river otters) and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at benji.jones@vox.com or at benjijones@protonmail.com (encrypted). Follow him on X at @benjisjones.
Latest articles by Benji Jones
The bizarre link between your anti-anxiety drugs and salmon.
Researchers are hoping they may unlock one of animal biology’s greatest mysteries.
Sometimes nature thrives in the most unlikely places.
Here’s why you should never, ever drink the rain.
Job cuts and frozen funding could inch one of the world’s rarest species even closer to extinction.
A baby bust threatens the future of an already struggling reef.
A “wholesale decimation of expertise” threatens the natural resources we all rely on, a former top government official tells Vox.
Parks were already facing a staffing problem. Then came the government purge.
Exclusive: The US Fish and Wildlife Service has frozen millions of dollars, imperiling animals abroad.
In the oil-rich Permian Basin, the dunes sagebrush lizard faces extinction. Will Trump do it in?
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