Mackinac Island, a popular tourist destination in the Straits of Mackinac, features many attractions. Here's a look at five.

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What Causes Glaciers to Collapse like the Event That Buried a Swiss Village?

Lake Erie was wide open at the start of the new year and, slowly, about 15% of the lake was frozen over with ice by Jan. 15, according to statistics compiled by the National Oceanic and ...

In Switzerland, the mountainside gave way Wednesday near the village of Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, because the rock ... a lake forms every year on a rapidly retreating glacier ...

just a bit smaller in areal size than Lake Erie and well to the north, would have little ice cover while Lake Erie is completely covered. However, Lake Ontario is a much deeper body of water.

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