Birmingham residents are reporting "giant rats" and mountains of uncollected rubbish as the city grapples with an escalating waste crisis caused by bin worker strikes. Streets across the city have ...

Industrial action has resulted in the streets of a UK city becoming filled with rubbish as stray cats, rats and foxes ...

Balsall Heath and Small Heath locals claim businesses in the area haven’t had a waste collection in three-weeks ...

Photos show mountains of fly-tipped rubbish and overflowing bins along Birmingham's streets after bin workers went on strike.

Including the rats. The United States' most populous city has been spared the Upper Midwest's extreme wind chills, not to mention the shock of record-breaking snow in the deep South, in this week ...

In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations.

Rat infestation in many world cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington, and a new study blames climate change, urbanization and other human actions. A ...

But it boosts efforts to get rid of them, says city “rat czar” Kathleen Corradi. “It’s stressing out rats. It’s putting them in their burrows,” she says.