Chile’s Valparaíso hills on fire (Science)
Although naturally occurring wildfires have been infrequent in Chile (1), human-caused ignitions, flammable plantations, and prolonged droughts now make the region one of the...
You Asked 1,000 Questions about Peatlands, and Our Bog Experts Answered (Some of) Them...
We asked for questions about the amazing carbon-storage capabilities of peatlands, and how these ecosystems keep the planet breathing. Readers sent us more than...
Policy Brief CR2 | Wildfires and Invasion of Pinus radiata: A Double Threat to...
Claudia Leal Medina, PhD student, University of Freiburg, Germany; Graduate School, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Natural Resources, Austral University of Chile, Valdivia,...
Analysis | Extreme weather: One of the factors behind the February 2023 fires in...
By Martín Jacques Coper, (CR)2 principal investigator; René Garreaud, (CR)2 director; and Roberto Rondanelli, (CR)2 associate researcher.
During the first week of February 2023, we...
Researchers from CR2 awarded Fondecyt Initiation projects for 2024
The research projects led by Camila Álvarez-Garretón, Estela Blanco, Cecilia Ibarra, Javier Lopatin, and Alejandro Miranda have been granted funding by the Subdirectorate of...
CR2 Launches DataClima: A Repository of Platforms and Databases on Climate Conditions in Chile
While scientists in the United States struggle daily to prevent decades of scientific data from being lost, in Chile, the Center for Climate...
Policy brief CR2 | Effects of Native Forest Cover Loss from Forestry Activity and...
By Alejandro Miranda, Department of Forest Sciences, University of La Frontera and CR2 Associate Researcher; Jorge Hoyos-Santillan, Associate Researcher Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and...
Policy brief | Identifying the urban-rural interface in Chile: conditions that determine the highest...
Delimiting the rural-urban interface areas of Chile and defining those that have a higher risk of fires will allow efficient targeting of management...
Policy brief | Water availability in the Cauquenes river basin facing climate change and...
Lower rainfall and an increase in temperature would generate a 32.1% decrease in the flow of the Cauquenes river basin for the period...
Policy Brief CR2 | Construction of Route T-720 and its Impact on the Alerce...
By Rocío Urrutia, academic at the University of Aysén and researcher at CR2, and Alejandro Miranda, researcher at the Department of Forestry Sciences at...
