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

Rat populations are growing in cities around the world because of climate change. A new study explains why this is happening ...

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 ...

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

When it came to midsize counties, Central New York made some unwanted advances in the report. St. Lawrence County and Oswego ...

A warming climate is helping fuel the boom, and Toronto fares poorly in a study of 16 cities' rat populations.

More plastic is headed to New York City streets to help it reduce its rat problems. The city recently began requiring bins ...

New York City’s subway rat problem is worse in the Bronx and Manhattan, where users spotted rats more than half the time at one in five stops. To be sure, the results are unofficial and may need ...

So it's considered a wicked problem.” Even though rats are ... about what makes a property less likely to have rats,” Richardson said. New York City's recently stepped up rat-fighting, which ...

It had a 1.5 times greater growth in rat populations than New York City. The tell-tale sign of a rat problem in DC is a hole chewed through a hard plastic trash can. “The only way you can rodent ...

So it’s considered a wicked problem.” Even though rats ... about what makes a property less likely to have rats,” Richardson said. New York City’s recently stepped up rat-fighting, which ...