
Benji Jones
Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Benji Jones


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?

Something strange is happening inside the environmental movement.


Climate change is, unfortunately, giving rats a boost, a new study found.