WASHINGTON — (AP) — Rat infestation in many world cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington, and a new study blames warming temperatures, urbanization and other human actions.

Up to 1,200 new bin hubs are to be rolled out across Glasgow after a contract worth almost £2.5m was approved by the council. Glasgow City Council has been trialling the on-street hubs - which ...

Glasgow City Council has been trialling the on-street hubs - which include rat traps - in three parts of the city and say the quality of recycling has improved. The pilot project was aimed at ...

The old adage that you’ll make a fortune by developing a better mouse trap is not super realistic, as the engineers behind Sony’s Betamax video tape standard could tell you. However ...

Glue traps catch more than rodents — mostly because the trap mechanism is wide open and, well, made of super-sticky adhesive material. That's not exactly a shocking revelation. A TikTok clip posted by ...

"【Updated Designed】Automatically resets and holds upwards of 30 mice and 10+ medium sized Rats; Unlike conventional traps which only catch 1 or 2.You don’t need to clean up any mess ...

The island nation of New Zealand is thinking even bigger. It plans to kill all the rats in the country—with traps and poison baits spread over some 100,000 square miles—to try to save its rare ...