/tags/bright-lit-place Bright Lit Place en-US SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± Fri, 30 May 2025 00:38:32 GMT /environment/2025-05-29/everglades-scientist-jail-tom-van-lent-foundation On Thursday, a judge ordered longtime Everglades scientist Tom Van Lent to surrender in a case that shocked the normally tight-knit Everglades community. Fri, 30 May 2025 00:38:32 GMT /environment/2025-05-29/everglades-scientist-jail-tom-van-lent-foundation Jenny Staletovich /environment/2024-10-14/wlrn-bright-lit-place-podcast-university-of-miami-rosenstiel-school This coming Wednesday, Oct. 16, the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School and its signature Climate Café series will feature the first of two panel discussions on the award-winning SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± podcast, A Bright Lit Place, reported by Jenny Staletovich. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:00:00 GMT /environment/2024-10-14/wlrn-bright-lit-place-podcast-university-of-miami-rosenstiel-school SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± News Staff /environment/2024-01-23/everglades-restoration-fishing-water-treatment-miccosukee-ecology SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± 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. Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMT /environment/2024-01-23/everglades-restoration-fishing-water-treatment-miccosukee-ecology Jenny Staletovich, Patrick Farrell /environment/2023-12-29/van-lent-everglades-foundations-jail-contempt-scientist 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. Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:25:17 GMT /environment/2023-12-29/van-lent-everglades-foundations-jail-contempt-scientist Jenny Staletovich /environment/2023-12-06/everglades-restoration-sugar-farms-phosphorous-water Perhaps the biggest obstacle to the massive Everglades restoration project dissected in the SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± podcast Bright Lit Place is the water polluted by phosphorous and other nutrients that run off from sugar cane farms. Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:28:40 GMT /environment/2023-12-06/everglades-restoration-sugar-farms-phosphorous-water Tim Padgett /arts-culture/2023-11-27/everglades-restoration-podcast-bright-lit-place-jenny-staletovich SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± environmental editor Jenny Staletovich and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Patrick Farrell talk about what it was like to wade through the muck of the Everglades to check on the decades-long battle to make the River of Grass work as nature intended. Tue, 28 Nov 2023 03:53:46 GMT /arts-culture/2023-11-27/everglades-restoration-podcast-bright-lit-place-jenny-staletovich Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena, Alyssa Ramos /podcast/sundial/2023-11-27/everglades-restoration-podcast-bright-lit-place-jenny-staletovich We listen to the part of the first episode of Bright Lit Place, a new SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± podcast distributed by the NPR Network. It was reported by SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä±'s environment editor Jenny Staletovich. We also hear behind-the-scenes stories from Jenny and Patrick Farrell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who worked on the project. Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:59:28 GMT /podcast/sundial/2023-11-27/everglades-restoration-podcast-bright-lit-place-jenny-staletovich Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena /environment/2023-11-13/everglades-conservation-florida-bright-lit-place In 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 SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä±'s new podcast series Bright Lit Place. Mon, 13 Nov 2023 15:33:33 GMT /environment/2023-11-13/everglades-conservation-florida-bright-lit-place Rowan Moore Gerety, Jenny Staletovich