Does AP "Science" writer Seth Borenstein not have access to the Internet?

The Associated Press: This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

Last August, the Northwest Passage was open to navigation for the first time in memory.

Hey Seth--would you PLEASE read this, and then stop making that embarrassing claim?!

The Northwest Passage was successfully navigated in 1906, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1957, 1969, 1977, 1984, 1988, and 2000 (and probably in other years as well).