A number of natural repellents have shown impressive results against rats, with chilli or cayenne pepper proving particularly ...

A simple and affordable natural rat repellent could help deter the most unwelcome visitors.

After the municipal strike ended last week, we are still presented with heaps of trash on the sides of roads in and around ...

A simple kitchen staple can help keep rats at bay.

Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, reports that Los Angeles’s ongoing homelessness crisis, ...

According to NL Times, residents say the infestation has dragged on for roughly 12 months and that rats can be seen out in ...

In Berkeley, California, officials confirmed that a man died from leptospirosis after living in a recreational vehicle they said contained hundreds of wild rats. A woman who lived with him also got ...

Thousands of screaming seabirds wheel through the air above and below me as I lean over the railings of a viewing platform halfway down a cliff. The chocolate backs of guillemots are packed so closely ...

Chris G. Faulkes is at the School of Biological & Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. Read the paper: A queen odour mediates reproductive ...

It’s tough being a female in a naked mole-rat colony; they live a long life of servitude, maintaining the tunnels of their underground world and caring for the queen’s offspring. Within the colony, a ...

Naked mole rats are weird. They spend their lives almost entirely underground, are largely insensitive to some kinds of pain, can persist without oxygen for a long time, rarely develop cancer, and can ...

A well-known horticulturist and broadcaster has shared his top tips on keeping rats out of your garden during the warm weather — but issued a stark warning: "They are in probably 100% of gardens." ...