How Polar Bears could save the world

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Attempts to establish climate change as a legal threat to endangered species could yet give environmentalists the tools they need to revamp US carbon legislation. Danny Bradbury investigates

What do polar bears and traffic jams have in common? Not much, you might think, but they are inextricably linked, and one could help precipitate the demise of the other. Even though the average polar bear...

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