New York City Council Member Shaun Abreu launched Bill 736, or "Flaco's law." The bill passed on Sept. 26, 2024, and will implement rat contraceptives in areas where trash is containerized. He told ...

ABC News looks at New York City’s fight against rats as city officials and residents take matters into their own hands, ...

A geriatric woman and her associates are terrorizing Lower East Side locals by dumping dozens of pounds of birdseed in a tiny local park, turning the space into a putrid buffet for pigeons and ...

Frank Sinatra’s rendition of “Theme From New York, New York” still raises spirits through challenging times and marks joyous ...

As CBS News New York's Vanessa Murdock reports, the Big Apple isn't the only city struggling with this problem.

Using data from public rat sightings and inspections between 2007 and 2024, researchers examined 16 cities around the world ...

The city of Amsterdam is one of 11 where climate change is considered to be having an impact on the rising rat population.

A new study led by researchers at University of Richmond has revealed that growing rat populations are the world are closely ...

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

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

Burgeoning rat populations are a big problem for cities. Rats damage infrastructure ... It had a 1.5 times greater growth in ...