New York City is known for its towering skyscrapers and bustling streets, but lurking beneath the glitz and glamour of the city that never sleeps are 3 million resilient rats that have cemented their ...

If the trap’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’. New York City’s fight against rats has entered the furry beasts’ bedrooms, with the City Council approving a measure to lace rat traps with rodent birth ...

In Somerville, Massachusetts just outside of Boston, everyone has a horror story about the rats. Adaline Lining says they ruined Christmas for her last year. She had received a delivery of Bartlett ...

Harvard scientists have created an interface that allows humans to move a rat's tail just by thinking about it. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the ...

Could birth control be the solution to one of Baltimore’s oldest pest problems? It was one of several options explored this week by a Baltimore City Council committee gathered to discuss the city’s ...

PROCESS WORKS. RATS OUT OF CONTROL. LOOK, RATS EVEN CHEWED THROUGH THIS TRASH CAN LID. SO WHAT CAN BE DONE? 11 NEWS INVESTIGATES HAS LEARNED THE CITY WILL SOON START USING AN UNCONVENTIONAL METHOD FOR ...

Where there is food, there will be rats. Much like it shook most everything else in the world, the COVID pandemic shifted where rats went to seek out their meals. As restaurants and businesses across ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. (WKRC) - Officials have greenlit a plan to reduce their city's rat infestation using a "rat contraceptive." It should come as no surprise that New York City has a rat problem. A study ...

Residents document accelerating rat infestations across Treasure Valley. Official rat control efforts are slowed by Idaho statute, jurisdictional hurdles. Experts urge vigilance, preparedness to ward ...

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 rat. She’d lived there 20 years and 10 seconds before she saw her second, ...

The crusading animal activists of PETA are blaming the city’s rampant rat explosion on “disgusting human behavior” — insisting thinning the herd shouldn’t include rodents’ “gruesome, painful” deaths.