In a city that never sleeps—and never seems to run out of rats—Suzanne Reisman has found her calling. Her “Garbage & Rats in ...

A new field study into New York City’s rats found them to be talkative city dwellers with an extensive language for ...

Dave Carlin has covered major national news stories and events in the past four decades including Superstorm Sandy and its tri-state impacts, Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina and Iniki on Kauai, ...

Here in New York City, we humans crown ourselves rulers of the five boroughs—but the kingdom is split. We cohabit with a parallel society that commutes along subway rails, picnics in parks and ...

Food abundance or scarcity affects the rate at which rats reproduce, as do milder winters. Global warming is beyond the remit of mayors, but stopping feeding time in cities is not.

New York City is home to some three million rats, and learning how these rodent residents navigate and communicate is vital to understanding their impact on humans. A new preprint shows attempts to ...

Los Angeles has the biggest rat problem in America, with more Yelp searches for rodent services than any other city.

New York City's rat czar has scuttled off the job two years after she was appointed to the role. Kathleen Corradi, former Citywide Director of Rodent Mitigation, was appointed to the position by New ...

The sanitation department is rolling out the trash containers in parking spaces throughout Community Board 2 in Brooklyn.

NEW YORK -- Move over pizza rat. Video of a new, hungry New York City rodent is going viral. A rat was spotted grabbing a donut from the subway tracks at a Lower Manhattan station and sharing it with ...