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

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

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

Simmering urban temperatures are bad for humans. It's another story for rats, according to new research -- especially in ...

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 ...

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

A new study is the first to link rising temperatures with booming rat populations in cities around the world. Rising seas, intensifying droughts, worsening floods — these are well-known effects of ...

Up to 1,200 new bin hubs are to be rolled out across Glasgow after a contract worth almost £2.5m was approved by the council.

A local authority is facing mounting pressure to backtrack on the charges for rat control treatments as the bin strikes could ...

Lee Brookes, of Tonacliffe Way, Whitworth, Lancashire, received a sentence of four months in prison, suspended for a year. He ...

A pile of fly-tipped waste near Newport city centre is “getting bigger by the day” and causing alarm among nearby residents.