Urban ecologists looked at 16 cities from Tokyo to New Orleans and found New York City had the fourth-highest rat population ...

The city of Amsterdam is one of 11 where climate change is considered to be having an impact on the rising rat population.

New York City hired its first-ever "Rat Czar" in 2023, and an investigation by CBS New York found rats had an increase of more than 7% since the Adams administration took office in 2022 and ...

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 ...

A large team of archaeologists, historians and prehistory specialists affiliated with a host of institutions across Spain has ...

Based on individual trends within cities, Washington was by far the leader in rat increases, followed by San Francisco, Toronto, New York City and Amsterdam.

He and his team decided to change that. They requested rat stats from the 200 biggest US cities by population, but found only 13 had the quality long-term data they needed. To give more ...

He and his team decided to change that. They requested rat stats from the 200 biggest US cities by population, but found only 13 had the quality long-term data they needed. To give more ...

But the biggest rat Corrigan has ever heard of was a one-pound ... consequences can be far-reaching and surprising. One study found that by massively reducing bird numbers on some islands in ...