The videos, filmed in April, reveal wet markets in China, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines are continuing to sell live and dead animals amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Scientists in Washington state are working to eradicate the first observations of a hornet species that had never been detected in North America until late last year.
Asian giant hornets are known to be capable of killing people with some regularity, including up to 50 per year in Japan, but they're more dangerous to honey bee populations, with the capability to kill 40 bees in a minute.
Dozens of elephant camps in Chang Mai, many of which have faced criticism over animal cruelty allegation, were ordered to close by the government to curb the spread of COVID-19.
The Yellow River—the second longest in the country—is sometimes referred to as "China's sorrow" due to its tendency over the centuries to produce devastating floods.
The country's horse purchase last October was reportedly its largest buy since 2015, when it acquired 61 horses for $192,204, according to Russian customs data.
Experts say China and Russia's ties are growing not out of a mutual affinity, but out of a necessity to avoid total domination by the U.S., whose strategy is only accelerating their rapprochement.
Asia represents nearly half of the world's meat consumption. "Asia is by far the number one focus for us. It is core to our mission; core to our business," said Impossible Foods' Nick Halla.
As a trade war looms with the U.S. and nuclear negotiations slow, Xi Jinping is making his debut visit to North Korea, shortly after Kim Jong Un's recent trip to Russia.
"Under most scenarios, short of war, the United States is unlikely to halt the narrowing power differential between itself and China," the Lowy Institute's 2019 Asia Power Index found.
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