Nature has to be appreciated as a whole. Residents have learned that lesson on Kiawah Island, where some people have been poisoning rats with anticoagulants and unintentionally killing bobcats that ...

The place: a modest house at the end of a narrow street in Culver City, California. The problem: The house’s owner had been feeding bread to a population of rats, which had moved into her kitchen and ...

A naturalist has warned against the use of rat poisons that could kill off the barn owls that prey on them. David Wingate said that anticoagulant poisons that caused internal bleeding in rats had also ...

CAMBRIDGE — As in all cities, the raging battle between rat and humankind here never ends. We can reduce the number of the ferocious pests rifling through trash cans, lurking in sewers, and ...

Thanks for your very timely columns concerning rats in our yards. I live along Little Joe Creek and have had rats for so long I've begun naming them. I also have two beloved dogs, so "safe" ...

This mayor’s a killer. Of rats, that is. Mayor Adams signed off on several bills Friday designed to reduce the city’s vermin population — a continuation of a policy push he’s taken visible joy in ...

Humans have done a lot to help rats become one of the most prolific mammals on the planet. We leave out food waste and trash. Our buildings and sewers provide cozy homes. We inadvertently help them ...