ABC News looks at New York City’s fight against rats as city officials and residents take matters into their own hands, ...

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, BetUS is hosting a contest where the jilted and betrayed can name a New York City street rat after their former flame. BetUS is hosting a contest where the jilted and ...

Such cold has, yes, a chilling effect on the Big Apple's notorious rodents. But it boosts efforts to get rid of them, says city “rat czar” Kathleen Corradi. “It's stressing out rats. It’s putting them ...

Urban dwellers in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Toronto, New York City, and Amsterdam might have seen rats scurrying across their cities — and they're not imagining an influx. Rat populations ...

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More rats: that’s the latest indignity that climate change is dumping on major cities around the world, including in Canada’s ...

Climate change is contributing to a global rise in urban rat infestations, according to a new Science Advances study. As ...

A new study led by researchers at University of Richmond has revealed that growing rat populations are the world are closely ...

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. NBC Universal, Inc. Rat infestation in ...