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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Marine biologists looking at the shrinking mahi population in Florida, and its apparent movement away from the tropics, believe climate change may be taking a toll on Florida's most popular fish. As they try to untangle what warming seas could mean for deep water sea life, they brought WLRN and WWNO along. -
In its first public meeting this week, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection said it was again postponing rules to limit turbidity which can damage coral and other sea life. -
A draft update to the state's water quality rules omits a recommendation to set stricter limits on turbidity that can damage imperiled reefs. -
Saying Florida is not getting in the "golf course business," Gov. Ron DeSantis said plans to bring golf, pickleball, hotels and frisbee golf would go back to the drawing board. -
The rally at Oleta State Park, along with others around the state, were staged to coincide with public meetings scheduled by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and then postponed after widespread criticism of the plans ignited petitions and letter-writing campaigns. -
A veterans group that pushed for golf courses at Jonathan Dickinson State Park has backed off its plans. But protesters still want to rally Tuesday over concerns for hotels, pickleball or frisbee courses at other parks treasured for their quiet wild lands. -
An unexpected Florida plan to jazz up wilderness in state parks with golf courses, hotels and pickleball courts has outraged conservationists who say the proposals violate state law and tarnish areas of staggering beauty. The plan was leaked this week, and there is only one public meeting so far scheduled at each park. -
Despite the dedicated efforts of scientists, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced this week that no wild elkhorn — a species valued for its tough wave-shredding antlers and listed as an endangered species — could be found south of the Upper Keys. -
In a report Tuesday, the Florida Keys Wildlife Research Institute said no new sawfish deaths have been reported since June. But exactly what caused the startling behavior remains unknown. -
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. -
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. -
Rising temperatures shut down some conchs’ impulse to reproduce. So scientists are ferrying them to colonies in deeper, cooler waters.
