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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Twenty-five Kemp's ridley sea turtles, considered the rarest among sea turtles, arrived in the Keys Tuesday after being rescued from frigid water off New England. -
The century-old count is one of the longest, continuous data sets on record, providing details about shifting migrations and floundering populations. -
Over his short life, Daniel Weisberger went from Boy Scout and beloved older brother to killer. To understand why, we headed to the Florida Keys, where Daniel’s world unraveled. WLRN's special report 'Keeper and Killer' looks at mental illness and the criminal justice system through the family's story. What starts as a cautionary tale has an end that is far from expected. -
Over his short life, Daniel Weisberger went from Boy Scout and beloved older brother to killer. To understand why, we headed to the Florida Keys, where Daniel’s world unraveled. WLRN's special report 'Keeper and Killer' looks at mental illness and the criminal justice system through the family's story. What starts as a cautionary tale has an end that is far from expected.
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Miami-Dade sparked a fight with the the Biscayne Nature Center — housed in a building that Douglas helped raise money to construct — in August after saying its programming license was expiring this month. -
The nonprofit center that Marjory Stoneman Douglas helped found says its located a decades-old document that could boost its case to stay.
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The study to determine what impact a planned port dredge will have on nearby coral confirmed millions of coral, including one of the largest stands of wild staghorn coral left on the reef. -
State lawmakers passed the law, Senate Bill 180, in June to speed up rebuilding in hurricane-damaged areas. But 1,000 Friends of Florida and a farmer argue it also blocks local planning laws for three years. -
National parks, refuges and the Big Cypress Preserve furloughed staff and began cutting services after the U.S. government shutdown at midnight Wednesday. -
Conservationists are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Miami federal court after the Service missed the deadline to add a tiny South Florida crayfish to the endangered species list.
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As budget cuts loom for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Environmental Defense Fund create a new map providing the location and explanation of work done by hundreds of NOAA offices and research projects across the country. -
A proposal included in the county's $12.9 billion budget would strip the Division of Environmental Resources Management of its permitting authority even as it re-establishes DERM as an independent department.
