Jenny Staletovich
Environment ReporterJenny Staletovich has been a journalist working in Florida for nearly 20 years.
She’s reported on some of the region’s major environment stories, including the 2018 devastating red tide and blue-green algae blooms, impacts from climate change and Everglades restoration, the nation’s largest water restoration project. She’s also written about disappearing rare forests, invasive pythons, diseased coral and a host of other critical issues around the state.
She covered the environment, climate change and hurricanes for the Miami Herald for five years and previously freelanced for the paper. She worked at the Palm Beach Post from 1989 to 2000, covering crime, government and general assignment stories.
She has won several state and national awards including the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for Distinguished Service to the First Amendment, the Green Eyeshades and the Sunshine State Awards.
Staletovich graduated from Smith College and lives in Miami, with her husband and their three children.
Contact Jenny at jstaletovich@wlrnnews.org
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The lawsuit alleges the Environmental Protection Agency failed to follow-up on a promise to update 1990s-era pollution standards in the state. -
A sharp rise in ocean temperatures this month has scientists keeping a close watch on coral reefs suffering from water persistently warmed by climate change. -
The University of Miami has named a longtime atmospheric scientist as the new dean of its top-ranked marine and atmospheric science school.
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Tom Van Lent was handcuffed in a Miami courtroom and taken to jail to begin serving a 10-day jail sentence in a case that divided the normally tightknit Florida environmental community. It caps a three-year battle between the hydrologist and his former bosses at the Everglades Foundation, who accused him of stealing trade secrets. -
County commissioners in the Florida Keys agreed to withdraw from the South Florida Regional Climate Compact, as well as eliminate positions tied to emergency management, to cut costs. -
The Department of Government Efficiency earlier this year said it was terminating the Key Largo office for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. -
Nearly two years after an unprecedented die-off of endangered smalltooth sawfish in the Florida Keys, scientists are still investigating conditions that caused the deaths and how to better predict and prevent future outbreaks. “We're gonna probably have this tax on the sawfish population indefinitely," a marine biologist told WLRN. -
On Thursday, a judge ordered longtime Everglades scientist Tom Van Lent to surrender in a case that shocked the normally tight-knit Everglades community. -
Researchers have discovered that the Formosa and Asian subterranean termites, which are responsible for half of the global damage caused by all termites, are cross-breeding in South Florida. -
In the preseason outlook issued Thursday, forecasters say warm ocean temperatures are the main reason the season is again expected to busier than normal. ”Everything's in place for an above-average season,” said National Weather Service Director Ken Graham, ”No matter the forecast, what do we always say? It only takes one. So we gotta be prepared.” -
One sawfish died and three were reported in distress in waters around the Florida Keys in April. -
A Florida Keys judge threw a surprising lifeline to a mentally ill man facing life in prison for killing his younger brother as he slept in his bed nearly five years ago. Daniel Weisberger was sentenced to therapy and decades of probation.
