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.
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
Can Pollution From Industrial Animal Agriculture Be Controlled?
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Can the Nation’s Most Wind-Powered State Look to Solar?
By Anika Jane Beamer
Global Warming Is Fueling Dengue Fever Outbreaks
By Anika Jane Beamer
Trump Administration Moves to Dismantle Conservation as an Official Use of Public Lands
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
Wastewater Treatment Plants Channel ‘Forever Chemicals’ Into Waterways Nationwide
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
‘Bayer Bill’ Granting Legal Protections to Pesticide Companies Fizzles Out in the Iowa Legislature Again
By Anika Jane Beamer