In the mid-2000s I was a journalist based in Shanghai and I came upon what seemed like a great story idea. China’s economic rise had created a fascinating dynamic with the animal realm. While a ...

SHANGHAI — As some media outlets cover the coronavirus, journalists are mixing up wet markets and wildlife markets. But most wet markets are not wildlife markets, and confusing the two is dangerous.

The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, in effect the executive committee of the Chinese Communist Party, in late February issued an edict banning the country’s “wet markets,” ...

The Chinese government has reportedly allowed some wet markets in the country to reopen as the coronavirus threat in the country has allegedly decreased. The coronavirus that has killed more than ...

If you have ever been to a shopping area where butchers and grocers sell fresh produce straight from the farm, then you have been to something that would, in some parts of the world, be called a wet ...

The stigmatization of Asian people and their culture as “inferior” or “exotic” isn’t a new phenomenon. What is considered acceptable or “strange” meat is often the result of arbitrary cultural norms, ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As medical professionals around the world are searching for ways to stop the coronavirus outbreak, greater ...

Last year, Peter Daszak, a member of a World Health Organization (WHO) investigative team that looked into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, told NPR that he believed the outbreak most likely ...

Calls are coming to crack down on China's wet markets, which some suspect are the place where the coronavirus could have first infected humans. Such markets are known for selling live animals such as ...

A strict ban on the consumption and farming of wild animals is being rolled out across China in the wake of the deadly coronavirus epidemic, which is believed to have started at a wildlife market in ...

WASHINGTON – In the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese government moved quickly to ban wildlife consumption and crack down on certain "wet markets" where snakes, civets and other ...