The meaty link between a city’s football matches and its foul air (Nature)

Chilean fans’ fervour for grilling leads to pollution spikes when the national team plays. The skies of Santiago grow murky during the national football team’s...

The 4 biggest lessons from the latest IPCC climate report (Popular Science)

The new IPCC report underscores the need for swift climate action. By Ula Chrobak The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change doesn’t hedge in its latest assessment...

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...

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 | Regulation of volatile organic compounds: a systemic look

By Rodrigo Seguel, full-time researcher at Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2. Thousands of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) coexist in the atmosphere due to...

Five Years on from the Paris Agreement, How Can Countries Give A Boost To...

By: Mark Leon Goldberg on December 10, 2020 December 12, 2020 is the five year anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement. On that day a...

Policy brief CR2 | The Challenges of Air Pollution in the Quintero-Puchuncaví Bay

By Rodrigo Seguel, Researcher at the Center for Climate Science and Resilience (CR2) Since 1955, various productive activities have been concentrated in the Quintero-Puchuncaví...

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,...

Policy brief | Environmental injustice and sacrifice zones: The Puchuncaví case

The socio-environmental history of Puchuncaví, a renowned sacrifice zone located in the Valparaíso Region, Chile, has been reconstructed for the last 136 years. ...

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...

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