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Lakshmi Supriya, Science Writer

L. Supriya

Lakshmi Supriya is a freelance science journalist based in Bangalore, India. She writes about anything fun, quirky, and weird that catches her eye. She also writes about the environment, climate change, physics, biology, and engineering. Her stories have appeared in Science, New Scientist, The Wire, and C&EN, among others. She was a 2019 spring intern at Mongabay Wildtech, where she covered the use of technology for wildlife conservation. She is also a recipient of the World Conference of Science Journalists 2019 Travel Fellowship and was a 2019 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Ocean Journalism Fellow. Before Lakshmi moved to science journalism, she spent her days as a scientist, working at several global corporations such as Intel and Saint Gobain and a few startups, developing products for the semiconductors, medical devices, and plastics industries. She has a Ph.D. in polymer science and engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and an undergraduate degree in industrial chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Aerial photo of Blackwood Sinkhole on Great Abaco, the Bahamas
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Early Inhabitants of the Bahamas Radically Altered the Environment

Lakshmi Supriya, Science Writer by L. Supriya 26 April 202124 August 2023

Clues in sediments show that once humans arrived on Great Abaco Island, they hunted large reptiles to extinction and burned the old hardwoods and palms, leading to new pine- and mangrove-dominated lands.

A line of controlled fire burns across a dry grassland in South Africa.
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Zooming In on Small Fires in Africa

Lakshmi Supriya, Science Writer by L. Supriya 2 April 20215 September 2023

By analyzing high-resolution satellite images, researchers found that fires burning in Africa were undercounted by as much as 80%.

An illustration showing a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young Sun-like star
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Half of Earth’s Nitrogen May Be Homegrown

Lakshmi Supriya, Science Writer by L. Supriya 3 March 202115 February 2022

A new analysis of iron meteorites reveals a distinct isotopic signature that suggests nitrogen was present around early Earth.

Scientists excavate the remains of a Taíno house at Los Buchillones, Cuba.
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Taíno Stilt Houses May Have Been an Adaptation to Climate Change

Lakshmi Supriya, Science Writer by L. Supriya 15 January 202126 October 2022

A coastal village in the Caribbean flourished during a period of increased hurricanes. Research suggests the Taíno designed their dwellings to persist through the greater storm surges.

Satellite image of ring-shaped Nukuoro Atoll in the Pacific
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Rethinking Darwin’s Theory of Atoll Formation

Lakshmi Supriya, Science Writer by L. Supriya 30 October 202010 November 2021

Atolls have a long and complex history related to seafloor evolution, and Darwin’s model is only the beginning of the story.

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Severe Cyclones May Have Played a Role in the Maya Collapse

Lakshmi Supriya, Science Writer by L. Supriya 1 September 202024 August 2023

Sediment cores from the Great Blue Hole reveal that a series of extreme storms hit the region after 900. The storms may have irreparably damaged an already stressed Maya population.

Massive fire spreads over the forested hills of Uttarakhand, India
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COVID-19 Lockdown Reduces Forest Fires in the Western Himalayas

Lakshmi Supriya, Science Writer by L. Supriya 28 July 202019 October 2021

The overlap between peak fire season and pandemic response has made for a serendipitous experiment in forest fires in two Indian states. Humans, not lightning, seem to be the likeliest culprit.

Aerial view of an oceanic blue hole
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Sea Caves Hold Clues to Ancient Storms

Lakshmi Supriya, Science Writer by L. Supriya 22 November 201926 October 2022

Sediments dug up from sea caves help reconstruct past climate, contributing to better storm predictions.

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