Benji Jones

Environmental correspondent @voxdotcom. @pulitzercenter grantee. past: @BusinessInsider Reach out: [email protected].

[Benji Jones @BenjiSJones]

Hiii. I’m not spending much time on here anymore. Please follow me at the link below if you’d like to keep up with my work:

https://t.co/rJjPbOqP1a

[Benji Jones @BenjiSJones]

And THANK YOU to our project partners @CentralParkNYC @prospect_park @NTNU_Museum @uofg @NYCParks -- really appreciate your help with this!

[Benji Jones @BenjiSJones]

Some exciting news: @voxdotcom is setting out to discover a new species in New York City. 🧵

[Benji Jones @BenjiSJones]

The goal is to highlight how little we actually know about the animals in our own backyard and explain what we gain by finding and naming them. I'm stoked!

Here's the project page, where we'll post updates. https://t.co/kmjKTcf40Y

[The Sunday Long Read @sundaylongread]

Don't miss this week's SLR, guest edited by @dannyfunt and featuring @tab_delete, @shalini, @paulbrownUK, @SWhyno, @BenjiSJones + more https://t.co/RPzoWIs7VX

[Joshua Benton (@joshuabenton.com on Bluesky) @jbenton]

Say hello to the 2026-27 class of @niemanfdn Fellows! Including @jpbarrientosh, @photobracken, @grahambrewer, @caraNYT, @george_butler, @hiloglazer, @BenjiSJones, @romina_mella, @rowanmg, @nakashimae, @jangelooff, @moniango, @Oks_Parafeniuk, @vipasquet, @kcecireyes, @HarrietTorry, and @ClaudiaUceda

https://t.co/zM3NRlM2Z7

[Zachary Tracer @ZTracer]

Huge congrats to @BenjiSJones! What a cool opportunity
https://t.co/STHNeqw6mo

[Benji Jones @BenjiSJones]

@ZTracer ahh thank you!

[Benji Jones @BenjiSJones]

Here’s a weird fact: Every time someone buys an assault weapon (or any gun) in the US, such as an AR-15, they’re inadvertently funding wildlife conservation.

I wrote about an obscure law that makes state wildlife agencies deeply dependent on gun sales. https://t.co/KtDUAAxrsE

[Bryan Walsh @bryanrwalsh]

.@voxdotcom Future Perfect is hiring three fellows.
If you want to spend a year writing about the biggest stories the media is missing — AI, global health, animal welfare, catastrophic risk — apply by May 12. Fellowships begin in July, remote option. https://t.co/4h1QY2x1V8

[Paige Vega @PaigeBlank]

🚨Just launched: @voxdotcom's most ambitious biodiversity project of the year.

@BenjiSJones went to Madagascar to find out what it takes to save one of the world’s most unique ecosystems — and learned that the answer begins with putting people first.

https://t.co/WGMqkx1GWh

[Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella]

Great story from @BenjiSJones on how wind energy took off in Iowa: https://t.co/ZbPg9N1AWs

[Benji Jones @BenjiSJones]

One way to assess your emotional state, according to my therapist:

Imagine you open a kitchen cabinet and everything — tupperware, mixing bowls, etc. — comes tumbling out. How do you react? Would you scream? Cry? Laugh it off and calmly put things back?

Honestly very helpful.

[Benji Jones @BenjiSJones]

This is a big deal — corals in Florida and throughout much of the Caribbean are not producing babies anymore. Sexual reproduction is failing. That means coral reefs will start failing too.
https://t.co/SAXTzS140A

[Benji Jones @BenjiSJones]

@RealGirlProject this 100%

[Benji Jones @BenjiSJones]

Scooplet: The Fish and Wildlife Service has issued stop work orders, frozen funding, and ceased communication for all of its international grants, jeopardizing critical conservation overseas. Much of this money is appropriated for Interior, not foreign aid.https://t.co/yS3ezfMWFS

[Benji Jones @BenjiSJones]

A tiny endangered lizard is set to test the Trump administration's "drill, baby, drill" agenda — and what it means for the nation's most imperiled species.

Meet the dunes sagebrush lizard. It lives in the largest oil producing region of the country.
https://t.co/cLtkt1W2ku

[Jennifer Sahn 🌻 @throwin_shadows]

We are hiring a Design Director for @highcountrynews! This person will get to work with the most talented and big-hearted journalists in the West. Could this be you or someone you know? https://t.co/6cFd3Ls3Ko

[Byron Tau @ByronTau]

I looked at these contracts and I have my own fun fact. This is occurring because agencies (not just USAID) are buying subscriptions to Politico's Pro editorial product, not because Politico is getting grants or other federal funding.