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 | The crucial role of satellite products in observing the Earth from space...
By Deniz Bozkurt, associate researcher (CR)2, and Roberto Rondanelli, associate researcher (CR)2 and academic DGF-FCFM Universidad de Chile.
Observation of Earth processes is vital to...
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 | A ‘recado’ for CORFO and the Chilean Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge...
By Cecilia Ibarra, associate researcher at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2
Climate action as a guiding mission for STI policy
A mission-oriented public...
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 | 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 | 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 | Reconstructing the past 5,000 years of climate history in the Southern Hemisphere
Antonio Lara, Ricardo Villalba, Rocío Urrutia-Jalabert, Álvaro González-Reyes, Juan Carlos Aravena, Brian Luckman, Emilio Cuq, Carmen Rodríguez, and Alexia Wolodarsky-Franke
The use of natural indicators...
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...
