Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands in southeast Michigan have joined a movement to stop the use of rat poisons due to the harm they pose to pets and ...

University of Copenhagen researchers have gotten yeast cells to brew triptolide, a substance typically extracted from a rare Chinese plant. Their research makes it possible to control rats with the ...

If the trap’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’. New York City’s fight against rats has entered the furry beasts’ bedrooms, with the City Council approving a measure to lace rat traps with rodent birth ...

For centuries, rats have thrived in cities because of human behavior. In response, humans have blamed the rats and developed techniques for poisoning them. We research urban rat populations and ...

New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death.

D.C. is doubling down on efforts to kill rats in some of its most infested neighborhoods by returning to a method the city has tried before: birth control. The approach, this time combined with an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dragging the weighted black bait box out from the brush with his boots, Ryan Campbell wiped a few beads of sweat from his forehead ...