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Month: April 2021

Covid-19 surge in Michigan has put hospitals at critical capacity levels, health care provider says

Soaring Covid-19 cases in Michigan — where one of the nation’s worst outbreaks is underway — are pushing hospitals to critical capacity levels, and residents need to help stop the virus’s spread, the state’s largest health care system said Thursday. Metro Detroit hospitals are at or nearing capacity, with most units 75%-100% full, Beaumont Health

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Habitat and species loss leaves just 3% of world’s land ecosystems intact, study suggests

Just under 3% of the world’s land remains ecologically intact, with undisturbed habitat and minimal loss of its original animal species, a new study suggests. The research, published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, combined maps showing human damage to habitat with maps showing where animals have disappeared from their original

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Tattoos, hairstyles and jewelry: Disney park cast members can be (more) themselves

Disney is striving to make its theme parks — “The Happiest Place On Earth” — more inclusive. In a blog post this week, the chairman of Disney’s parks division Josh D’Amaro committed to updating attractions, modernizing the parks’ values and, perhaps most visibly, changing the guidelines for how park employees — better known as Disney

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Secretary of State Blinken visits Afghanistan day after US announces plans for withdrawal

Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday in an unannounced visit less than 24 hours after the United States and the NATO coalition formally announced they would withdraw their troops from the country after nearly two decades. In remarks alongside Afghan political leaders, Blinken attempted to underscore that although the US military

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