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Dell Inc. unveiled an environmental plan Wednesday that the computer maker said will make its operations carbon neutral by 2008, a year earlier than it previously promised.

A day before President George W. Bush's climate talks, China and other developing nations showed a strong preference for climate negotiations sponsored by the United Nations.

Miguel Torres, a fourth-generation vintner, has planted vines 1,000 meters above sea level in the Pyrenean foothills in northern Spain and plans to buy more land in cooler areas.

BA joins a number of airlines seeking to counter environmental critics by touting efforts to limit climate change.

The president's focus instead is on his own gathering of leaders in Washington later in the week, a meeting with the stated goal of a reduction in the emissions blamed for climate change.

Growing inside the caves of the tropical Pacific island of Borneo are some of the keys to understanding how the Earth's climate suddenly changed - several times - over the last 25,000 years. Using evidence from stalagmites, researchers found that the tropical Pacific may play a much more active role in historic climate change events than was previously thought.

Government officials from around the world flocked to Washington yesterday to press for mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change in anticipation of President Bush's summit on global warming later this week.

A day before President Bush's climate talks, China and other developing nations said Wednesday the need to provide food, shelter and clothes for their citizens must come ahead of global warming concerns.