The ice on Lake Michigan has turned blue. Here's why.
 

The ice on Lake Michigan has turned blue. Here's why.
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The ice on portions of Michigan's Great Lakes has turned blue, but don't worry, there's a perfectly good reason why.*

The phenomenon is common on glaciers, but not so much on large swathes of lake ice. It's happening where Lake Michigan meets Lake Huron, at a place called the Straits of Mackinac. There, fat slabs and mounds of cracked blue ice have collected near the shorelines.

Local photographer Tori Burley captured the image above.*

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The ice, however, is not actually turning blue. The color is a result of the way sunlight is bouncing off this particular ice, explained Ted Scambos, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, in an interview.* Read more...

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