New York City began the very first "Urban Rat Summit" in history on Wednesday with Mayor Eric Adams leading opening remarks ...

Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's little relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in ...

Bite marks on trash cans, holes in walls of their houses, and trails of dropping are the constant sights for these neighbors ...

Mice, rats and other rodents are generally not welcome in the family home unless they are kept as a pet. They can damage your ...

BOSTON - Members of Boston's Public Works Department and the Inspectional Services team will be heading to New York for a "rat summit." The meeting will bring together other rat plagued cities ...

In an innocent attempt to expand its ready-meal selection, Heinz inadvertently declared a culture war against Italy. The ...

I’m excited to welcome my fellow generals in the ‘War on Rats’ to our great city for the inaugural National Urban Rat Summit, ...

The brown rat, or Rattus norvegicus, isn't all that different from the average New Yorker. It hates long commutes and loves a reliable food source, which it will keep returning to again and again.

Despite their pervasiveness, the common brown rats you see scurrying around subway tracks and garbage bags aren’t native to New York. According to a plaque on this monument that popped up in The ...

Adams spoke about the large number of people attending the inaugural National Urban Rat Summit in New York. He said rats ...

The rats, which get their name because of their two-legged stance and large haunches, eat mostly seeds and are dependent on new plant growth to survive. That puts their needs at odds with how ...