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Tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution demands collaboration across and beyond disciplines. The ECH provides essential knowledge, space for collaboration, and support for our shared future.

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We are facing a triple crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution each pose separate yet interconnected challenges. An integrated and mechanistic understanding and approach to these different facets of the crisis is necessary to ensure a sustainable future for us all. The ECH brings together researchers to produce excellent scientific knowledge that can provide us with solutions for this multitude of challenges.

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Alice Vadrot Elected as Domestic Corresponding Member by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

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Alice Vadrot, political scientist at the University of Vienna and member of the ECH, has been elected as a domestic corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) – a recognition of her outstanding academic achievements. Domestic corresponding members are recognised researchers from Austria who are appointed to the Academy on the basis of their excellent expertise and who contribute to academic work and interdisciplinary exchange within the Academy.

Raccoon Rampage: A Game about Invasive Species and Difficult Decisions

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Invasive alien species are among the most underestimated drivers of biodiversity loss. What happens when this complex challenge becomes a board game? Developed by biodiversity researcher Bernd Lenzner and colleagues, Raccoon Rampage turns research into a playable experience, showing how ecological change, political decisions and public perception interact, and why invasive alien species require attention before their impacts become irreversible.
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