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 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. -
Wildlife managers propose changes to Endangered Species Act, sparking concern among conservationistsUnder the change, the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service would no longer consider the potential damage to a species’ habitat when deciding whether to allow activities like drilling or construction.
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A new University of Miami study looked at forty years worth of data from across the Atlantic and found cooler waters in deep currents off the U.S. coast could be warming. The current, known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, has drawn increasing scrutiny as climate change warms the planet because it plays such a sweeping role. -
DeSantis recently announced that more than $389 million in grants have been awarded to improve water quality across the state, including $28 million for the South Florida Water Management District.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is ending dry season releases that give the lake a chance to recovery from high water conditions but can trigger algae blooms in the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers. -
The bills would allow developers to buy credits for wetlands mitigation far from areas impacted and long before restoration is achieved.
