CR2 News Report | Heatwaves and Extreme Roulette. What Does the Summer of 2024...
A study has concluded that heatwaves have increased throughout the country over the past four decades, primarily in the valleys of the central-southern...
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...
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 | What Is Chile’s Long-Term Climate Strategy?
Pilar Moraga, Deputy Director of the Center of Environmental Law of the School of Law of Universidad de Chile and Principal Researcher of the...
Policy Brief | Change in Chile’s fire regime
The occurrence of extremely destructive, hard-to-control fires – called megafires - has increased in south-central Chile since 2010, causing serious social, economic, and environmental...
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 | The history of fires in Chile’s Araucaria forests: 500 years of human...
Mauro E. González, associate investigator, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2; Ariel Muñoz, adjunct investigator, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2; Álvaro...
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...
