Telegraph (India): Move over cricket betting, it’s time to place a wager on the North Pole becoming ice-free in the next couple of months. And scientists have put their money on the ice melting. According to researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, US, the water of the Arctic Ocean around the North Pole may be ice-free soon. Mark Serreze, a senior scientist at the centre, said the thin sea ice will melt at the geographic North Pole by September this year. “We kind of …