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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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NOAA awarded South Florida scientists up to $16 million to try to breed and replant about 100,000 coral on ailing reefs using survivors of last summer's heat wave. Researchers say climate change is the biggest threat to coral’s survival because it’s simply making water too hot too fast.
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The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board heard new challenges from Miami Waterkeeper over environmental impacts stemming from extending the 1970s-era South Florida nuclear reactor operations to 80 years. "We actually don't know how an aging plant like that will hold up, especially in the face of climate change,” the group argued.
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Rising temperatures shut down some conchs’ impulse to reproduce. So scientists are ferrying them to colonies in deeper, cooler waters.
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After last year's lethal marine heat wave, coral scientists are looking at ways to help coral survive another potential round of dangerous bleaching.
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Hurricane Beryl rapidly intensified to become the earliest Category 4 storm in recorded history. As it struck Carriacou island with 150mph winds, Grenadian community leaders in Miami say they expect the worst. It does not bode well for a season already forecast to be above average.
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Scientists working to save Florida’s ailing reef hope Caribbean coral thriving in hotter water could bring some relief.
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Joan Browder worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's South Florida ocean lab for 46 years and was one of the few women studying wetlands ecology when she earned her PhD from the University of Florida.
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With this year’s Atlantic hurricane season expected to be yet another stampede, Florida and other states around the Gulf of Mexico should keep an eye out for an under appreciated ingredient in the Gulf that can quickly turn storms into lethal monsters: hot ocean eddies.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says high surface temperatures in the ocean well ahead of schedule, a busy monsoon season and high odds for a La Niña are driving the forecast.
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Improved track and intensity forecasts make it easier for the public to prepare for hurricanes, but forecasters at the annual Governor’s Hurricane Conference say short fuse hurricanes — that rapidly intensify near land — remain a concern.
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A final Back Bay plan worked out between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Miami-Dade County is scheduled for June, with the hope of getting it authorized in the 2024 national water resources legislation now being hammered out by Congress.
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Scientists believe modern flamingos, which state wildlife officials do not believe are native, are reclaiming their historic range and want the birds reclassified. A new Audubon count has raised their optimism.