A city can have one of two levels of rat. There are cities where rats are glimpsed at night, furtively scurrying into a dark corner or among the train tracks. Then there are cities where the rats are ...

As the city of Boston ramps up its perpetual battle against rats, more attention has focused on unconventional strategies to eliminate rodents, including deploying rat contraceptives to suppress the ...

Rats are present in almost every city in the world, building their own rat settlements in parallel with human urban infrastructure. Several North American cities are considering the use of new ...

To address the area's rat population, the New York City Council recently passed a bill for a pilot program that will use birth control on rats. PIX11 News reported this new strategy came about in ...

The Municipality of Lakeshore is making it cheaper for residents to rid their properties of rodents with the launch of a ...

Starting in spring 2025, parts of Manhattan’s 7th District will participate in a yearlong pilot program implementing rat contraceptives in an effort to reduce rat sightings. A continuation of the city ...

A little bit of sex education goes a long way. That’s what Boston’s city councilors are hoping after a 2023 rat birth control pilot program in Jamaica Plain showed promising results in reducing the ...