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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 ...

A new study has linked increasing temperatures to growing rat populations. Climate change is contributing to a global rise in urban rat infestations, according to a new Science Advances study. As ...

You could call it rata-tour-y. New York City has always been at war with rats, from when they jumped from ship to shore in the 18th century to the city’s anti-rat campaign today. Over many decades, ...

Wildlife experts fear that a rat could disrupt the island’s delicate balance, so they are pulling out all the stops. By Amanda Holpuch The last time a rat found its way to Alaska’s St. Paul Island, in ...

The warmer it gets, the faster rats multiply in cities that already struggle to contain them, according to a new study. Cold weather is one of the few things that can slow rats down, and with climate ...

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 cities across the globe are becoming far rattier, and the boom is ...

Rats are in many ways better adapted to cities than the humans that built them. While urbanites struggle with crowds, sparse parking spaces, and their upstairs neighbors stomping around at 4 a.m., ...

One sunny afternoon in March, the city’s rat czar, Kathleen Corradi, came to Seward Park to survey her domain. It was treatment time for some rat burrows off Essex Street. Rats in this corner of the ...

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(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) NEW YORK − Tourists snapped selfies and office workers guzzled coffees inside Manhattan's Bryant Park. But all around their ...