Pigeons -- flying rats, rock doves, what have you -- are probably not on anyone's favorite list of fowl, but lately they've been bringing the house down. Well, not houses exactly, but bridges and ...

This is because, as urban rodentologist Robert Corrigan writes in Boston’s 2024 Rat Action Plan, the “No. 1 driver of rat populations in all cities is the food refuse dynamic.” ...

Rats are found everywhere around the world, except Antarctica, and are often seen as a sign of poverty and disease. A recent study shows that as the climate warms, rat populations are also ...