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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We are all connected by the environment we share. The Earth is our home. This is the space where we share the environmental stories that caught our attention this week, in Florida and beyond. -
The rule, originally proposed in 2016 to expand net requirements to protect sea turtles, was rewritten by the Trump administration and stripped of requirements that would have protected twice as many turtles. -
We Use Artificial Intelligence In Our Online Searches, Why Not Use It To Fight Florida's Invasive PlUniversity of Florida researchers are mapping two of Florida's most destructive invasive plants, hoping to train computers to be able to detect and map it across thousands of miles. -
Local water managers and planners say the 70-year-old system needs to undergo a $6 million study to look at fixes to address sea rise. -
The bills would set new rules on gun laws, emergency orders and clean energy. -
Burnett Oil has asked state environmental regulators to construct two roads and concrete pads on wetlands in the national preserve and hopes to begin drilling by 2022. -
The tool is part of a new law taking effect July 1 that calls for projects using state money to conduct studies on damage and costs tied to sea rise. Critics say the law falls short by not requiring fixes. -
The groups say Florida's application was riddled with errors and fast-tracked to get a decision before the Trump Administration leaves office. -
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said this week the deepening red tide did not factor into the decision to scale back releases. But the agency also said it has decided not to appeal a judge's order to factor damage from algae blooms into managing lake releases. -
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice this week to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to designate critical habitat for the Everglades bully, Big Pine partridge pea and six other endangered plants.
