First she saw the eyes, then the ears, then the tail. Jane Rohling had lived in Eagle for 20 years before she saw her first ...

You could call it rata-tour-y. New York City has always been at war with rats, from when they jumped from ship to shore in the 18th century to the city’s anti-rat campaign today. Over many decades, ...

Mounds of garbage bags full of mouth-watering trash are complicating New York City’s efforts to control its rat population. But in one section of central Brooklyn, a 31-pound killer is offering up her ...

Mayor Eric Adams might be assailed by FBI investigations, but he was the star of the show at New York City’s inaugural Rat Summit on Wednesday. Dozens of the United States' leading rat experts — as ...

Urban rats spread a deadly bacteria as they migrate within cities that can be the source of a potentially life-threatening disease in humans, according to a six-year study that also discovered a novel ...

One morning last year, John Gladwin opened the cupboard under his kitchen sink and discovered a bag of soil he'd been storing there was torn to shreds. Days later he noticed a pungent smell too. It ...

Could birth control be the key to curbing Chicago's rat infestation? A new pilot program moving away from rat poison is launching on Tuesday in what has been dubbed America's "rattiest city." The new ...

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City officials discussed their plans to offset a recent uptick in rat activity, specifically in the 6th Ward, on Thursday. In September, the 6th Ward received an average of about eight rat complaints ...

Two years into the mayor’s anti-rodent siege, rat infestations persist, but one consequence of the policy change has emerged: a major uptick in homeowner fines. “The summonses started escalating,” ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found ...