Andrew Barrett is hardly a rat sympathizer. He's spent years waging war on the rodents who flock to his community garden in Brooklyn, smashing the entrances to their underground burrows ...

Rising seas, intensifying droughts, worsening floods — these are well-known effects of climate change, the consequences of pumping too much heat-trapping pollution into the air. Now, we may be ...

Scientists did not understand how the disease was transmitted but had long theorized that rats played a role.

During a war, the rat populations of seaports and of ships always shoot up. House rats left their nests in basements and began to dig burrows in vacant lots and parks, particularly Central Park ...

If there is one thing we can count on in this world, it's that subway rats will go viral. We've had pizza rat, we've had double pizza rats, and now, thanks to the untamed wilds of New York City ...

For the Vietnam War tunnel rats, these missions formed part of their day-to-day lives.

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A COUNCIL has been slammed for not emptying residents’ bins for months because of rats — despite the infestation being caused by the lack of pick-ups. Locals are locked in a battle over the ...

She’ll be tasked with coordinating the Adams administration’s war on rats — a pet project priority for the mayor, who frequently lets the public know how much he despises the four-legged pests.