Stretched Thin, Iowa Agency Issues Few Fines for Manure Pollution
By Nina B. Elkadi, Anika Jane Beamer
ICN Iowa
Cleaner Water a Hope, Not a Given, for Iowa in 2026
By Anika Jane Beamer
To Save An Endangered Prairie Fish, Dried-up Iowa Wetlands Get New Life
By Anika Jane Beamer
Where Does 110 Billion Pounds of Manure Go?
ICN Sunday Morning
Google Data Centers Will Bring Nuclear Power Back To Tornado Country
By Anika Jane Beamer
Factory Farms in Iowa Generate 110 Billion Pounds of Manure Per Year. No One Tracks Where It’s Going.
By Anika Jane Beamer, Nina B. Elkadi
Can We Produce More Food With Less Land?
By Anika Jane Beamer
Iowa Counties Keep Water Quality Monitoring Afloat After State Funding Cuts
By Anika Jane Beamer
Growing ‘Continuous Corn’ Drives Emissions of a Powerful Greenhouse Gas. It Doesn’t Have To.
By Anika Jane Beamer
This Town Was One of the First in the Nation to Install a Geothermal Network. Now Others Are Warming Up to the Idea.
By Phil McKenna
Can the Nation’s Most Wind-Powered State Look to Solar?
By Anika Jane Beamer
House Bill Amending the Clean Water Act Could Mean Dirtier Water Nationwide—And Especially in Iowa
By Anika Jane Beamer
The Battle Over Polluted Water Beneath an Iowa Coal Ash Landfill
By Anika Jane Beamer
RAGBRAI, the World’s Largest Recreational Bike Ride, Is Getting Hotter and Harder
By Anika Jane Beamer
Clean Energy Brought Data Centers to Iowa. The Big Beautiful Bill Could Change That
By Anika Jane Beamer
Iowa Agriculture Runs on 110 Billion Pounds of Manure, at a Cost to Its Water
By Anika Jane Beamer
Pollution, Not Drought, Prompts Lawn-Watering Ban in Des Moines
By Anika Jane Beamer
As an Eastern Iowa Quarry Seeks to Quadruple Its Water Use, Residents Urge the State to Intervene
By Anika Jane Beamer
