In separate incidents in early March, officials across three Indonesian provinces rescued a critically endangered Sumatran ...

Carolina isn't your average retiree. After seven years of devoted work, Carolina, an African giant pouched rat, had sniffed out more than 3,000 cases of tuberculosis that medical tests had missed, ...

When's the last time you spotted a rat in broad daylight? When's the last time you saw a rat walking around, at all? Hopefully, your answer was "never." Rats gross me out. I know there are people out ...

Indonesia is pressing ahead with construction of a new network of dams in Borneo to power a major “green” industrial estate ...

Councillors grappling with the Birmingham bin strike found themselves facing questions from their worst nemesis as they met to discuss the crisis - a giant rat. A man in full rodent costume ...

An expert has raised fears hordes of giant rats could spread a deadly disease in Birmingham, where industrial action by refuse workers has left mountains of waste. The city council last week ...

An expert has sounded the alarm that swarms of giant rats could potentially transmit a lethal illness in Birmingham amid ongoing bin strikes. Birmingham City Council issued a major incident notice ...

RATS infesting piles of rubbish left on the streets of Birmingham could turn deadly as temperatures rise, experts have warned. Industrial action by refuse workers - who are unhappy about pay and ...

WARMER weather could transform Birmingham’s rat-infested rubbish piles into deadly health hazards, experts warn. As mounds of rotting waste pile up on the streets and temperatures soar to 21C ...

A Birmingham councillor who refused to support Labour's cost-cutting budget for the city because it included a 'rat tax' has now officially quit the party. Sam Forsyth, a barrister and anti ...