Significantly larger than mice, rats leave behind a trail of destruction, affecting our living comfort and damaging various items. Many people might resort to traps or poison upon encountering a rat.

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 ...

Beneath the lush vegetation, a bloody battle is being waged between the city’s rats and the trappers set on exterminating them. “We call it our Vietnam. It’s so challenging,” said James ...