Open water nears **rth Pole as 2016 melt season races to finish
 

Open water nears **rth Pole as 2016 melt season races to finish
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With the midnight sun sinking lower in the sky each day, **w is typically the time of year when the annual summer sea ice melt slows to a crawl in the Arctic.*

But 2016 is **t your typical year in that part of the world. In fact, ** year is "typical" anymore for a region that is warming at about twice as fast as the rest of the globe.

Right **w, broken ice and open waters are inching closer to the geographic **rth Pole. This is extremely rare, but likely **t unprecedented, said Mark Serreze, the director of the National Climatic Data Center, in an interview.

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