Based on individual trends within cities, Washington was by far the leader in rat increases, followed by San Francisco, ...

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

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 warming climate is helping fuel the boom, and Toronto fares poorly in a study of 16 cities' rat populations.

The AI model was able to eventually match the rats’ image processing capabilities, but only after using more and more ...

Climate change is fueling a surge in rat populations across major US cities, with Washington, DC, seeing the worst increase ...

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 warning that cities across the US and beyond are becoming far rattier, and t ...

A new study of cities across the globe has found a link between climate change and larger increases in the urban rat ...

It gives cities a better picture of the uphill task that they face,” said Jonathan Richardson, an urban ecologist at the University of Richmond who led the work published in ...

Rodents have apparently gnawed clear through the dense plastic of the Big Apple ‘s supposedly “rat proof” new trash bins — but the city said the results show the containers are largely keeping the ...

Winters are getting warmer and shorter as the climate changes. That's helping rat populations grow in several U.S. cities.