The pause affects billions of dollars and is delaying home repairs, factory construction and other projects, many in states ...

In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations.

Climate change is contributing to a global rise in urban rat infestations, according to a new Science Advances study. As ...

More rats: that’s the latest indignity that climate change is dumping on major cities around the world, including in Canada’s ...

Global warming is worsening droughts, making sea levels rise, and fueling deadly storms. Now scientists have a new problem to add to that list: Climate change is helping rat populations thrive in U.S.

Climate change is fueling a surge in rat populations across major US cities, with Washington, DC, seeing the worst increase ...

Winters are getting warmer and shorter as the climate changes. That's helping rat populations grow in several U.S. cities.

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 ...

Urban rat populations have surged dramatically in recent years, with some cities experiencing increases of nearly 400%, ...

A new study is the first to link rising temperatures with booming rat populations in cities around the world. Rising seas, intensifying droughts, worsening floods — these are well-known effects of ...

A new study finds that rat infestation in many of the world’s cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington.