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Benji Jones

Reporter

Benji is an environmental reporter at Vox based in Brooklyn, NY. He previously covered the energy industry as a senior reporter at Business Insider. His writing also appears in National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Audubon Magazine. Benji has an MS in ecology and evolution.

Hidden inside the Inflation Reduction Act: $20 billion to help fix our farms

By Benji Jones August 16

Listen to the heartbeat of the largest animal to have ever lived

By Benji Jones August 11

Meanwhile, Congress is set to pass a huge wildlife conservation bill with bipartisan support

By Benji Jones August 8

Down to Earth

Why scientists are desperate to find a salamander that’s been missing for 71 years

More than 2,000 species worldwide are considered lost. Could finding them avert extinctions?

By Benji Jones August 1

Beavers are heat wave heroes

By Benji Jones July 22

It’s so hot in Europe that roads are literally buckling

By Neel Dhanesha and Benji Jones July 20

Otters are thriving in … Iowa?

By Benji Jones July 4

This could be the coolest summer of the rest of your life

By Benji Jones June 22

How Yellowstone’s animals survive a catastrophic flood

By Benji Jones June 17

A teensy, tiny glimmer of hope for polar bears

By Benji Jones June 16