Fashion warms to reality of climate change: Leading international fashion designers and industry experts say unpredictable and typically warmer weather worldwide is wreaking havoc on the industry. It is forcing fashion houses to ditch traditional seasonal collections for transeasonal garments that may lead to a drastic overhaul of fashion show schedules and retail delivery dates. The Age

Will climate change battle win peace prize?: Already topping the international agenda, the fight against global warming and its protagnists, such as Al Gore, could take home this year’s Nobel Peace Prize when it is announced on Friday. Gore, a former US vice president, and Sheila Watt-Cloutier, who is a Canadian Inuit and climate change campaigner, are believed to be among the favourites as the Nobel committee hunkers down to select a winner among the 181 candidates this year. Cosmos

Back to nature: £12m plan to let sea flood reclaimed land and recreate lost habitats: Conservation experts are to reverse five centuries of British history and deliberately allow rising sea levels to flood a huge stretch of reclaimed Essex coastline. In the most ambitious and expensive project of its type, the RSPB intends to puncture sea defences around Wallasea island, near Southend, and turn 728 hectares (1,800 acres) of farmland into a mosaic of saltmarsh, creeks and mudflats – making mainland Britain just a little bit smaller. Guardian

Aussies offered ‘green’ car insurance: Not content with carbon neutral home loans and carbon neutral airfares, green-conscious Australians can now get carbon neutral car insurance. Australian Insurance Holdings has launched what it claims is the first 100% carbon-neutral motor insurance product in Australia. SMH

Is wine greener from a box or a bottle?: Wine gives the impression it’s deeply in sync with its agricultural roots, with many bottles featuring bucolic pictures of vines and healthy grape-pickers. Keeping that impression of agrarian harmony intact is difficult, however, given that viticulture has a massive energy and waste footprint. This is soberingly described in a 2005 study by environmental physicist Maurizio Cellura, in which he announces that a single bottle of red wine created more than a pound of waste and released 16g of sulphur dioxide. Observer