Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth, but scientists are ...

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The attention given to a rat problem in an elementary schoolyard garden last summer raised our awareness of how vulnerable we all are to rodent pests. Then in the fall, after talking with numerous ...

The 27-year-old says the rodent problem in her Middlesbrough street is "horrible".

If we are, as some city officials have said, in a war with rats, we are clearly losing. We’ve been losing for years. Although cities have ramped up their use of poisons and traps, the number of rats ...

New York City has a well known rat problem. And the city is trying to tackle it — with trash cans and by changing human behavior. New York City has a rat problem. Officials have a plan to kick it from ...

Multnomah County rat inspections have fallen by more than half since 2019, and county rat experts don’t know why. “Yeah, that’s a mystery,” said Christopher Roberts, a Multnomah County Public Health ...

Hartford is another Connecticut community dealing with unwanted rodents in neighborhoods. "Rats do not respect you,” said Shawn Harrell of Hartford. Harrell says some unwelcome neighbors have moved ...

The wisteria was cut back as the local council believed it encouraged the spread of rodents.

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — A recent study ranked the nation’s capital as the top US city with a growing rat problem, raising new concerns about public health, sanitation, and how the city should ...

(CNN) — There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth, but scientists are warning cities across the globe are becoming far rattier, and the ...