Rat populations are growing in cities around the world because of climate change. A new study explains why this is happening now and what we can do about it.

Poisoned baits are the main way land managers control foxes, feral cats and dingoes. Baiting is done to reduce livestock and ...

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

A new study is the first to link rising temperatures with booming rat populations in cities around the world. Rising seas, intensifying droughts, worsening floods — these are well-known effects of ...

The district attorney’s office in Harris County, Texas, has alerted attorneys involved in thousands of drug-related cases that rats were found eating the narcotics seized and stored by Houston police ...

"We've got 400,000 lbs. of marijuana in storage, that the rats are the only ones enjoying it," said Houston Mayor John Whitmire A backlogged police evidence room in Houston, Texas, is a bountiful ...

Rats are consuming drugs that were seized and stored by Houston police and hundreds of cases could be vulnerable to the rodent infestation, officials said. It's an issue that has prompted the ...

GREEN BAY (NBC26) — Neighbors in the Mather Heights are of Green Bay have recently noticed items on sidewalks that appear to be rat poison, and some have had to pry the items out of their pets ...

An Australian mother has been charged with poisoning her one-year-old baby girl and posting video of the infant’s distress to get online GoFundMe donations, police and local media said Thursday. The ...

“We got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage,” Houston Mayor John Whitmire told NBC. “The rats are the only ones enjoying it.” The mayor and law enforcement officials have now decided to ...

Nikolett Emmert/Pexels; KHOU Rats have infiltrated the Narcotics Evidence Room of the Houston Police Department, forcing the district attorney's office to alert attorneys on thousands of open ...