IT IS a global warming story capable of striking fear into the hearts of children: broccoli can now be grown in Greenland.
The land synonymous with ice sheets, polar bears and Eskimos has experienced a small but significant increase in temperature which has made it economically viable for the first time in hundreds of years to grow and sell the vegetable locally.
The 57,000 inhabitants of the island, the world's largest, rely on the sea and imports from Denmark for the vast majority of their food.
But a one-degree Celsius rise in the temperature of the North Atlantic over the past century has boosted the air temperature in the south of Greenland by about three degrees.