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Anika Jane Beamer

Reporter, Iowa

Anika Jane Beamer covers the environment and climate change in Iowa, with a particular focus on water, soil and CAFOs. A lifelong Midwesterner, she writes about changing ecosystems from one of the most transformed landscapes on the continent. She holds a master’s degree in science writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as a bachelor’s degree in biology and Spanish from Grinnell College. She is a former Outrider Fellow at Inside Climate News and was named a Taylor-Blakeslee Graduate Fellow by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.

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A wind farm is seen in a rural area near Pomeroy, Iowa, on July 5, 2025. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

What’s Killing Onshore Wind Power?

By Dan Gearino, Anika Jane Beamer

Stretched Thin, Iowa Agency Issues Few Fines for Manure Pollution

By Nina B. Elkadi, Anika Jane Beamer

An aerial view of burning houses as a wildfire blazes through Concepción, Chile, on Jan. 18. Credit: Guillermo Salgado/AFP via Getty Images

Patagonia Is Burning

By Anika Jane Beamer

The Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

Cleaner Water a Hope, Not a Given, for Iowa in 2026

By Anika Jane Beamer

A view of restored oxbow wetland in Johnston, Iowa. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

To Save An Endangered Prairie Fish, Dried-up Iowa Wetlands Get New Life

By Anika Jane Beamer

Disaster survivors traveled to Washington, D.C., to call for a stronger federal disaster response system, not the much-reduced agency proposed by a Trump-appointed council. Credit: Ralph Alswang

Disaster Survivors Denounce Proposed FEMA Downsizing

By Anika Jane Beamer

Where Does 110 Billion Pounds of Manure Go?

ICN Sunday Morning

A view of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Palo, Iowa. Credit: NextEra Energy

Google Data Centers Will Bring Nuclear Power Back To Tornado Country

By Anika Jane Beamer

A field near Polk City, Iowa, where hog manure was recently spread and incorporated into topsoil. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

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

A view of the coal-fired Coal Creek Station power plant near Underwood, N.D. Credit: Dan Koeck/The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘Burning Money’: Dept. of Energy Directs $100 Million to Modernize Declining Coal Plants

By Anika Jane Beamer

A view of an Iowa soybean field with corn stubble from the previous year. Credit: Curt Maas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Can We Produce More Food With Less Land?

By Anika Jane Beamer

An aerial view of farmland in the Des Moines metropolitan area. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Iowa Counties Keep Water Quality Monitoring Afloat After State Funding Cuts

By Anika Jane Beamer

A combine harvests corn alongside a tractor near Northland, Minn. Credit: Richard Hamilton Smith/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Growing ‘Continuous Corn’ Drives Emissions of a Powerful Greenhouse Gas. It Doesn’t Have To.

By Anika Jane Beamer

Can Pollution From Industrial Animal Agriculture Be Controlled?

ICN Sunday Morning

Wind turbines tower over a rural landscape on July 5 near Pomeroy, Iowa. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Can the Nation’s Most Wind-Powered State Look to Solar?

By Anika Jane Beamer

A woman sits along with her daughter suffering from dengue fever at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital on Nov. 4, 2024, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Credit: Abdul Goni/AFP via Getty Images

Global Warming Is Fueling Dengue Fever Outbreaks

By Anika Jane Beamer

An oil and gas operation on leased public land in Kerns County, California. Credit: John Ciccarelli/BLM

Trump Administration Moves to Dismantle Conservation as an Official Use of Public Lands

By Anika Jane Beamer

A view of the Des Moines River from Prospect Park in Des Moines, Iowa. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

House Bill Amending the Clean Water Act Could Mean Dirtier Water Nationwide—And Especially in Iowa

By Anika Jane Beamer

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