Benji Jones
Senior Correspondent
Benji Jones is a senior environmental correspondent at Vox, where he covers biodiversity loss and climate change. He often photographs his own stories, too.
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. He’s also an experienced scuba diver and Spanish speaker.
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).
Latest articles by Benji Jones
The reality behind Trump’s push to log more public forests is weirdly complicated.
Just 51 of these whales are left on Earth. Trump officials may have just doomed them.
Introduced species can wreak havoc on native ecosystems. Many states are flooding their waterways with them.
A first look at new research from the forests of central Mexico.
And what it reveals about wildlife encounters in the years to come.
New research reveals which food crops are razing the rainforest. One comes out way ahead — and it’s an American favorite.
How did Costa Rica beat back deforestation and buck the global trend?
See inside Tolga Bat Hospital, a place for Australia’s injured and orphaned flying foxes.
Scientists are baffled by the results from new Arctic research.
Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really matters.