According to pest control experts, the rat population is booming, and service calls are way up. NewsNation headed out with ...

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.

Required containerization and later set out times have helped drive down the number of rats on New York City streets.

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 ...

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 ...

A new study found that the warming climate may be partially responsible for Boston’s growing rat population. The study, which was published Jan. 31 in the journal Science Advances, used data ...

Of the 16 cities studied, Amsterdam was considered to have the 5th fastest growing rat population, just behind New York. In America, Washington and San Francisco have the most rat sightings ...