Winters are getting warmer and shorter as the climate changes. That's helping rat populations grow in several U.S. cities.

The “rat patrol” has been on the warpath. No, not the Rat Patrol from the TV show in the 1960s. This is the city's “rat ...

Climate change is fueling a surge in rat populations across major US cities, with Washington, DC, seeing the worst increase ...

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

Based on individual trends within cities, Washington was by far the leader in rat increases, followed by San Francisco, ...

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 ...

Dead rats, medical waste, liquor bottles, construction debris, broken pavements, abandoned vehicles, and household garbage surround three anganwadi centres of Muthamil Nagar in Kodungaiyur under ...

This means York residents, and students, have to store decomposing food waste on their property for two weeks, and that rats have ample time and encouragement to raid their wheelie bins. Why does York ...

One study found that by massively reducing bird numbers on some islands in the Indian Ocean’s Chagos Archipelago, rats also interrupted the flow of bird poop into the ocean, where it fertilizes ...