Why an Alaska island is using peanut butter and black lights to find a rat that might not exist
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — On an island of windswept tundra in the Bering Sea, hundreds of miles from mai...
Mice and rats
How to get rid of NYC rats without brutality? Birth control is one idea
New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other roden...
How brown rats crawled off ships and conquered North American cities
Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. New research suggests that they crawled ...
A warming island’s mice are breeding out of control and eating seabirds. An extermination is planned
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Mice accidentally introduced to a remote island near Antarctica 200 y...
An unknown culprit has filled in a Chicago neighborhood landmark known as the ‘rat hole’
You dirty rat! In a city infamous for its gangster past, some culprit filled in a Northside Chicago ...
Humane societies probe transfer of 250 small animals that may have later been fed to reptiles
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Roughly 250 small animals that were transferred from California to Arizona may ...
Bark beetles are eating through Germany’s Harz forest. Climate change is making matters worse
CLAUSTHAL-ZELLERFELD, Germany (AP) — Nestled in the spruce trees in the Harz mountains of northern G...