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.
Stretched Thin, Iowa Agency Issues Few Fines for Manure Pollution
By Nina B. Elkadi, Anika Jane Beamer
Patagonia Is Burning
By Anika Jane Beamer
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
Disaster Survivors Denounce Proposed FEMA Downsizing
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
‘Burning Money’: Dept. of Energy Directs $100 Million to Modernize Declining Coal Plants
By Anika Jane Beamer
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?
ICN Sunday Morning
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