Benji Jones
Environmental Reporter at Vox
Environmental correspondent @voxdotcom. @pulitzercenter grantee. past: @BusinessInsider Reach out: [email protected]. Trans rights are human rights.
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1 week ago |
vox.com | Benji Jones
It sounds like something out of a nightmare: a giant drone flying through the sky and dropping containers full of live, buzzing mosquitoes, one of the world’s most hated insects. But in Hawaii, this scenario is very much real. A remotely operated aircraft, about 8 feet long, is flying over remote forests in Maui and releasing cup-shaped capsules full of mosquitoes. As scary as it might sound, the project is a clever solution to a problem that has long plagued the Hawaiian islands.
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2 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Benji Jones
Sweet nectar powers their tiny, furious bodies and super-fast wings, which beat as many as 80 to 90 times per second. And luckily for them, they don’t seem to get diabetes, even though they have extremely high blood glucose levels. In the wild, hummingbirds, the smallest birds in the world, get their sugar from wildflowers, such as honeysuckle, lilies, and bee balm.
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2 weeks ago |
vox.com | Benji Jones
Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today. For a limited time, you can get more than 30% your membership. Hummingbirds run on sugar. Sweet nectar powers their tiny, furious bodies and super-fast wings, which beat as many as 80 to 90 times per second. And luckily for them, they don’t seem to get diabetes, even though they have extremely high blood glucose levels.
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3 weeks ago |
vox.com | Benji Jones
Hurricane season in the Atlantic has officially begun. And while this year will likely be less extreme than in 2024 — one of the most destructive seasons ever, with the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record — it’s still shaping up to be a doozy. Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predict “above-average” activity this season, with six to 10 hurricanes. The season runs from June 1 to November 30.
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3 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Benji Jones
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nearly two decades ago, scientists made an alarming discovery in upstate New York: Bats, the world’s only flying mammal, were becoming infected with a new, deadly fungal disease that, in some cases, could wipe out an entire colony in a matter of months.
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RT @KennyTorrella: Great story from @BenjiSJones on how wind energy took off in Iowa: https://t.co/ZbPg9N1AWs
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.
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
