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 annual tides will likely cause minor flooding twice a day with each new and full moon cycle through November. -
Rather than cut funding to just $6.5 million, county commissioners agreed to restore funding to $20 million after an appeal by environmental groups. -
A daylong symposium organized by the Love the Everglades Movement at the Miccosukee Casino and Resort will include talks on science and arts, plus a fashion show, dance party and "created shenanigans" to better understand the Everglades. -
In late August and early September, the largest collection of Florida's most endangered coral spawned in a Key Largo nursery. Thousands of babies are now being raised in labs around the state, which scientists hope could help revive elkhorn coral on North America's only barrier reef. -
A hasty summons for national park superintendents to attend regional meetings later this month has triggered alarms that more downsizing could be in store. -
The National Weather Service reported Tuesday that unusually dry conditions helped fuel summer-long heat that set new records in parts of South Florida. -
The Army Corps broke the massive plan into phases to better manage it and won approval from Congress last year for the first phase. -
Fires that burned about 24,000 acres in Everglades National Park were mostly brought under control on Wednesday, but scientists are keeping an eye on effects from a prolonged drought that could impact Florida Bay, wading birds and the Everglades muck. -
As fire burned through parts of Everglades National Park over the weekend, extreme drought conditions continue to grip the wetlands. More than three months into the rainy season, this year’s withering drought has slightly eased for other parts of South Florida. But central Everglades marshes, where the fires ignited, remain in unusual extreme drought conditions. -
A coalition of conservation groups are urging county commissioners to reverse ongoing cuts the Miami-Dade's environmentally endangered lands programs. -
A nature-loving family donated 5 acres in the Redland, valued at $800,000, to the Miami Blue Chapter of the North American Butterfly Association. The chapter plans on handing it over to Miami-Dade County. -
In a court filing this week, the Army Corps project manager said the work had damaged nearby endangered staghorn coral, meeting or exceeding what was allowed under the permit.
