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.
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National Hurricane Center data for Miami, Washington, D.C., and New York City show development happening in at-risk areas, even as climate change brings more frequent and intense storms. -
Managers are speeding up work on the aging pumps at the Broward-Miami-Dade county border and along the Little River to fight worsening flooding.
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The storm triggered six sewage spills, include three that likely dumped sewage in the Miami River, Biscayne Bay and waters off Virginia Key.
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Commissioner Joe Carollo had proposed changing city rules to ban planting new mangroves to protect waterfront views.
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The forecast would make the Atlantic season, which begins June 1, the seventh consecutive above-average season.
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University of Miami Rosenstiel oceanographer Nick Shay says the Loop Current swings up from the Caribbean toward the Gulf coast like an ocean river, moving warm water hundreds of feet deep. That can help produce dangerous storms like 2018's Hurricane Michael that rapidly intensify.
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An ordinance proposed by City Commissioner Joe Carollo would outlaw planting new mangroves or other tall plants at city parks to protect water views.
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The new University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science research inspired an English scientist and poet to turn it into verse.
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The foundation's attorneys plan to ask a judge to hold scientist Tom Van Lent in contempt of court today for failing to return research or allowing them to inspect computer equipment.
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Earthjustice and Florida Rising filed a complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday.
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The money was included in a 2023 budget unveiled Monday.
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The latest plan cuts back on both the storage and cleaning needed to fix the lake. It eliminates a large above ground reservoir and treatment marshes, relying instead on underground storage wells.
