NEW YORK, N.Y. (WKRC) - Officials have greenlit a plan to reduce their city's rat infestation using a "rat contraceptive." It should come as no surprise that New York City has a rat problem.

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 ...

New York City’s fight against rats has entered the furry beasts’ bedrooms, with the City Council approving a measure to lace rat traps with rodent birth control. The bill, which passed ...

When Kaylee Byers joined the Vancouver Rat Project a decade ago, she spent a lot of time explaining to others the threat of zoonotic diseases — starting with what “zoonotic” even means.

New York has come up with a novel approach to its infamous rat problem - targeting the rodents with birth-control pills. Under a plan approved by the city's council, contraceptive pellets will be ...

And while the Olympic Games might come to mind, this is very different, this is the Rat'lympics. It's not a competition for rodents, but rather so-called "human rats" that make up Rat Patrol Oz ...

New research suggests that pigs may function as a transmission vehicle for a strain of the hepatitis E virus (HEV) common in rats that has recently been found to infect humans. New research ...

A tiny Alaskan island known as the “Galapagos of the North” with a population of just 350 is in a panic over a singular rat that may not even exist. Residents of the St. Paul Island in the ...

“No evidence” for behavioral sinks has ever “been found in wild populations of animals—rat, mouse, or otherwise,” Dugatkin writes. And, even if Calhoun’s experiments did reveal ...

SINGAPORE – Singapore seems to be winning its ongoing fight against the rat population. There was a nearly 50 per cent drop in the average number of rat burrows detected in public areas in the ...

And there were also his efforts to carry on the fight against rats citywide by naming a “rat czar.” Putting out rat poison, as the city has done for decades, “doesn’t get us far,” Abreu ...

Mice also dwell on the ground but have less specific habitat preferences. Distinguishing between rat and mouse droppings can help with identification. Brown rat droppings are dark brown and ...