In Somerville, Massachusetts just outside of Boston, everyone has a horror story about the rats. Adaline Lining says they ruined Christmas for her last year. She had received a delivery of Bartlett ...

A city can have one of two levels of rat. There are cities where rats are glimpsed at night, furtively scurrying into a dark corner or among the train tracks. Then there are cities where the rats are ...

No matter how much poison you put out, rats continue to thrive. So D.C.'s Rat Rangers are trying education (of people, not the rats). They take residents into back alleys to illuminate the problem.

Rats are present in almost every city in the world, building their own rat settlements in parallel with human urban infrastructure. Several North American cities are considering the use of new ...

D.C. is doubling down on efforts to kill rats in some of its most infested neighborhoods by returning to a method the city has tried before: birth control. The approach, this time combined with an ...

D.C.'s Rat Rangers take anyone who is interested on night time safaris through some of the Capitol's filthiest back alleys to ...

Rats are present in almost every city in the world, building their own rat settlements in parallel with human urban infrastructure. Cities are ideal habitats for rats because they offer everything a ...