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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WLRN has been examining what happened to Florida’s promise to restore the Everglades with a massive plan approved in 2000. These are some of the people who’ve spent decades waiting for progress. Those hit hardest measure losses in their checkbooks and family businesses — or even their homelands. Others have devoted their careers to getting restoration done right.
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Since 2000, Miami-Dade has been working to improve its flood risk rating with federal emergency managers to cut insurance rates for residents in incorporated county neighborhoods.
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Judge Carlos Lopez ordered longtime Everglades scientists Tom Van Lent, 67, to spend 10 days behind bars for violating a court order stemming from a bitter court battle with the influential nonprofit Everglades Foundation.
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A judge asked attorneys in the case pitting the Everglades Foundation against its former chief scientists to submit recommended sentences on Friday, which could include up to a year in jail.
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The Everglades is dying. Our new podcast looks at the struggle to save it — and the costs of failureIn 2000, the U.S. set out on one of the most ambitious environmental projects ever attempted: to wind back the clock and make the Everglades function like it once did — in 1900. The plan could have given Florida a 20-year head start on climate change, but that didn't happen. Listen to WLRN's new podcast series Bright Lit Place.
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The controversial Miami Wilds water park near Zoo Miami comes back before Miami-Dade county commissioners Tuesday. But the commissioner who requested the deal now wants it deferred indefinitely.
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WLRN's Field Notes newsletter will feature original stories from Jenny Staletovich’s field reporting. Plus, recaps, with context, of important environment and climate stories of the week.
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The latest report confirms earlier findings. Critics say it highlights the need for repairs that are now seven years overdue.
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County commissioners postponed a vote that would have tied a critical step in ending the legal battle to a lease extension.
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Zoo Miami spokesman Ron Magill says he is raising concerns as a private citizen and conservationist. "If the zoo is the last place where a species of animal can be seen, then zoos have failed.”
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Scientists racing to protect coral amid an ocean heat wave that is blistering reefs off south Florida got some rare good news this month. Some of the rescued corals made babies in their lab.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have warned conditions around reefs are far worse than in past bleachings, due to the warming of the oceans. Severe bleaching conditions are expected to hit the entire Caribbean by next month.