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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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that could set aside about $750 million a year from Florida's gambling compact with the Seminole Tribe for conservation work. Critics are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw it out. -
Rare sawfish have been dying at unprecedented numbers in the Florida Keys. Scientist don't know why and federal officials are trying to save some of them.
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A new 25-year lease will allow longer, wider ships with a deeper drafts at the harbor just inside Florida's reef tract. The deal comes amid growing evidence that sediment churned up by ships damages reefs.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday it will take the unprecedented step of catching and caring for sick sawfish in an effort to prevent ongoing deaths. -
Overwhelmed experts are baffled over a trail of sick or dead sawfish that has stretched across 78 miles of shallow water in the Keys. The mystery is also stressing dozens of other fish species. -
One of the rarest fish on the planet is dying in the Keys. Scientists are struggling to find out whySawfish, and about 30 other species of fish, are turning up sick and dying in the Lower Keys as questions mount over what's causing it. As word and worries spread, scientists are yet to find a smoking gun. -
An another dead endangered sawfish was confirmed this week as reports of sick sawfish rose to 49. -
The number of reports of dead or dying endangered sawfish has risen to 39, with 15 bodies retrieved for testing, state wildlife officials said Tuesday.
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Scientists say the fish kill that started in November and spread among dozens of species is unlike anything they've seen before. -
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.
