California is the only state to ban the most lethal type of rat poison, so more rodents are living large these days, ...

A discovery at the Kavli Institute at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway has uncovered a ...

Humans have been poisoning rodents for centuries. But fast-breeding rats and mice have evolved resistance to earlier poisons.

That doesn’t necessarily mean the city has more rats per square mile — only that San Francisco’s rat population seems to have ...

Residents say they are embarrassed having to avoid falling over bin bags in the suburb 'alive' with rats and pigeons.

Rat infestation in many world cities appears to be soaring, especially in the nation's capital, and a new study blames warming temperatures, urbanization and other human action ...

The Science Advances group just did a study that shows the rat population is increasing in 11 our of 16 cities across the world. And one of those cities is Boston. "The assertion that rat ...

New York, home to nearly as many rats as people, has been fighting the rodent incursion for centuries. © 2025 Fortune Media IP Limited. All Rights Reserved. Use of ...

Researchers found cities that have seen the most warming had more sightings of rats, an indication that the population has grown. "Rats are fascinating creatures, but they come with very big ...

On the other end of the spectrum, three of the 16 cities covered saw significant drops in their rat population with the biggest decrease in New Orleans, followed by Louisville and Tokyo. The study, ...

Rats, though seemingly harmless, could be a real nightmare if they decide to settle in your garden. Not only are they experts at concealment, but they can also wreak havoc by burrowing underground ...