Good news, New York! Your endless war on rats has achieved its first tiny victory, and all it took was discovering what the ...

There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth but scientists are ...

Climate change is contributing to a global rise in urban rat infestations, according to a new Science Advances study. As ...

More rats: that’s the latest indignity that climate change is dumping on major cities around the world, including in Canada’s ...

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New York — This week's frigid weather has many New York City residents shivering, scurrying into cozy spots and feeling sapped. Including the rats. The United States' most populous city has been ...

“So we kind of get to double down now while the rats are ‘feeling the heat’ from this cold snap.” New York City's wild rat species — Rattus norvegicus, also called the Norway rat or ...

Blue bars, in contrast, indicate rat sightings have decreased. The takeaway is that DC, San Francisco, Toronto, and New York City have seen a surge in sightings over the last several years ...

A new study led by researchers at University of Richmond has revealed that growing rat populations are the world are closely ...

A new study finds that rat infestation in many of the world’s cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington.

FILE - A rat leaves its burrow at a park in New York City on Sept. 17, 2015. ( AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — Rat infestation in many world cities appears to be soaring, especially in ...