This is a scene playing out in Mission Hill and other marquee Boston neighborhoods as an exploding rodent population has many residents recoiling in “ewww,” and others questioning the livability of ...

Cities around the world are facing a growing rat problem, and scientists say climate change and urbanization are driving the surge. Warmer temperatures and expanding urban areas are creating ideal ...

On Monday, nearly every news outlet in Washington — and others quite far from here — reported that the rat population at the Occupy DC encampment in McPherson Square had, in the words of{}Mohammad N.

Most of us have experienced one of our best solutions backfiring and unintentionally creating a bigger problem in the future. One historical example of an unintended consequence occurred in the early ...