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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
Policy brief | Climate Change and Coronavirus Recovery Plans
Ryan Mitchell, MA Student at Clark University, International Development and Social Change. Internship at Climate Change Law Observatory - (CR)2.
The coronavirus pandemic has brought...
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...
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...
Analysis | The 2019-2020 fire season: Lessons and challenges
René Garreaud, Deputy Director, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2; Carlos Zamorano, adjunct investigator (CR)2; Mauro González, associate investigator (CR)2; Antonio Lara, principal...
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...
