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...
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 | 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 | Is the megadrought over? Not yet, but we’ve managed to get past...
By: Rene Garreaud. Edited by: Nicole Tondreau
We’re entering the last month of winter in central Chile, and it has felt particularly “wintry” to many...
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 | 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 | The crucial role of satellite products in observing the Earth from space...
By Deniz Bozkurt, associate researcher at (CR)2, and Roberto Rondanelli, associate researcher at (CR)2 and academic DGF-FCFM Universidad de Chile
In the first part of...
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 | Could the carbon sink of the world’s forests be neutralized?
By Rocío Urrutia, adjunct investigator at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2
It has been reported that increased CO2 emissions, nitrogen deposition and...
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...
