Jenny Staletovich
Jenny 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.
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Scientists working to save Florida’s ailing reef hope Caribbean coral thriving in hotter water could bring some relief. -
A dramatic increase in ocean temperatures around South Florida in early July caught scientists off-guard. They're now rushing to help struggling coral on the only inshore reef in the continental U.S. -
The pilot project by the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science could become part of larger U.S. Department of Defense efforts to armor coasts. -
In its most recent progress report on Everglades restoration, the National Academies of Sciences warned Florida that cleaning water remains a 'significant challenge.' -
The small stone crabbing community flooded again, just five years after Irma pushed ashore a storm surge that coated the town with mud and destroyed homes. WLRN's Jenny Staletovich visited Everglades City and saw that some fixes from resilient residents helped lessen the impact - but there was again suffering. -
Under the confidential settlement, hydrologist Tom Van Lent agreed not to surrender electronic devices and not discuss matters the Everglades Foundation considers confidential, including research and strategies. -
Over the last few decades, corals on the reef have been hammered by warmer water and ocean heat waves, disease and hurricanes. If the U.S. loses its reef tract, it loses a powerful defense against more intense hurricanes fueled by climate change. -
National Hurricane Center data for Miami, Washington, D.C., and New York City show development happening in at-risk areas, even as climate change brings more frequent and intense storms. -
The latest plan cuts back on both the storage and cleaning needed to fix the lake. It eliminates a large above ground reservoir and treatment marshes, relying instead on underground storage wells. -
The study by the Environmental Integrity Project analyzed biennial pollution reports sent by states to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
