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 | Increase of river and stream flow through native forest restoration in...
After 14 years of research, it was shown that recovering areas with native vegetation generates an increase in flows immediately and its maintenance...
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...
Growing awareness of the value of Chile’s peatlands (UN Environment)
Chile is renowned for its diverse ecosystem, from the vast mountain ranges of Patagonia to the southernmost tip of Tierra del Fuego. The country...
Policy brief | Climate change in Chile: the need to diversify nature-based solutions
The national strategy to address climate change relies on land use, land-use change, and forestry to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
Scientific evidence has...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
