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 contributing to a global rise in urban rat infestations, according to a new Science Advances study. As temperatures increase, rats are better able to thrive -- even in inclement ...

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

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

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

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

We are on our heels and being pushed backward,” Jonathan Richardson, the study’s lead author and an ecologist at the ...

Lee Brookes, of Tonacliffe Way, Whitworth, Lancashire, received a sentence of four months in prison, suspended for a year. He was also given 80 hours of unpaid work and the same 20 hours of ...

Elaine Powers first became interested in studying coprophagy—the practice of eating feces—when she was teaching high school ...