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 tornado that killed six people in St. Lucie County lasted an agonizing 31 minutes. As of Wednesday, 26 tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Milton have been confirmed from Florida City to Highlands County to St. Lucie County.
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Amid the spread of misinformation falsely claiming the government controls the weather, one falsehood in particular stood out in South Florida. Posts on TikTok and X the weekend before Milton hit falsely claim a University of Alaska lab had "activated" a site in the Florida Keys.
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Hurricane Helene and Milton delivered very different storm surges when they struck the Gulf Coast just two weeks apart.
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At 5 p.m. this evening, tide gauges in Naples showed water nearly a foot and a half above normal and producing moderate flooding. Milton was still about 60 miles offshore, southwest of Sarasota.
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Five tornadoes were confirmed by mid afternoon and a sixth spotted on radar in Broward, Southeast Palm Beach, Glades, Hendry and Collier counties.
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The National Academies of Sciences is again calling for Everglades planners to do a better job of incorporating climate change into the massive $23 billion restoration plan.
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NOAA's new national climate service could be embedded in existing weather offices or become an independent division. The hope is that will allow local officials to prepare so that risks like the devastating flooding that followed Hurricane Helene can be avoided or at least lessened.
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A new study found satellite land surface temperatures may not be accurately detecting how hot it feels in South Florida.
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Scientists worry that the arrival of the weedier seagrass from the Indian Ocean could outcompete local grasses that fight hurricane storm surges, trap carbon, feed turtles and manatees and supply major seafood and fishing industries.
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Arts, science and the Everglades will come together this Friday for a daylong symposium at the Miccosukee Casino and Resort.
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A popular Pompano Beach dockbuilder has been fined $250,000 and put on probation for a year after he pleaded guilty to illegally constructing numerous docks, pillings and seawalls.
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The tribe celebrated plans to spend the money to replace gas and diesel-burning school buses and other vehicles with electric vehicles at a ceremony Friday that included students and federal officials.