Analysis | What are peatlands and how do they help us to reduce the...
By Jorge Hoyos-Santillán, postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2
Peatlands, as we can appreciate in image 1, are a type...
Analysis | Reconstructing the past 5,000 years of climate history in the Southern Hemisphere
Antonio Lara, Ricardo Villalba, Rocío Urrutia-Jalabert, Álvaro González-Reyes, Juan Carlos Aravena, Brian Luckman, Emilio Cuq, Carmen Rodríguez, and Alexia Wolodarsky-Franke
The use of natural indicators...
Analysis | Fires in a changing climate
By René Garreaud, (CR)2 director and DGF-U.Chile professor; Martín Jacques, (CR)2 researcher and DGEO-UdeC professor; and Aníbal Pauchard, IEB researcher and Forestry-UdeC professor.
The summers...
Analysis | Towards a better forecast of heat waves in the Chilean south-central zone
Never and nowhere do heat waves (HW) go unnoticed. That is particularly true during the summer in the south-central zone of Chile, which extends...
Analysis | Ventilation of closed spaces: a measure against COVID-19
By Macarena Valdés, postdoctoral researcher at (CR)2 and assistant professor of the Epidemiology Program of the School of Public Health of Universidad de Chile,...
Analysis | Browning in the forests of central Chile
Alejandro Miranda, Antonio Lara, Adison Altamirano, Carlos Di Bella, Mauro E. González & Jesús Camarero
Something is happening in the sclerophyllous forests of central Chile:...
Analysis | We must pay attention to the voice of experience: What does the...
By Fabrice Lambert, associate researcher at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2. Academic at the Institute of Geography of the Pontificia Universidad...
Analysis | The Chilean Altiplano: When it rains, it pours
René Garreaud, Deputy Director, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2
A large part of the Chilean Altiplano (the mountainous zone in the Chilean regions...
Analysis | The Pacific Ocean’s “hot blob” and heatwaves in Chile
René Garreaud, Deputy Director, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2 ; and Martín Jacques, principal investigator, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2
The “hot...
Analysis | Amundsen’s ‘bite’ (a colder Patagonia and runaway salmon)
By René Garreaud & Deniz Bozkurt | Edited by José Barraza | 30 July 2020
The seasons in Antarctica are unmistakable. In summer, the ice...
