These enticingly flavored bait blocks are placed outside of buildings, in small black boxes that only rats and mice can enter. But the poison remains in the rodents’ bodies, threatening larger ...

Nearly 70% of global communities will likely be living in urban areas by 2050, according to the United Nations. Rats will, ...

In Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in southern Boston, residents in Hyde Square swapped out rat poison for birth control, ...

SOUTH GLENS FALLS – A South Glens Falls dog owner is warning others in the community after she discovered hundreds of rat poison pellets on her property. Kimberly Hoover found what she thought ...

In an approach to tackle its persistent rat problem, New York City has approved a pilot program to distribute contraceptive ...

I asked my husband to take a look at it, and he identified it immediately as rat poison.” The situation escalated when one of the family’s dogs was discovered chewing on another pellet near ...

Apparently, rats were learning to associate adulterated corn with unpleasant consequences and becoming bait-shy ... lived on an average block. If some of the rats on a block were killed, either ...

From poison to redesigned trash cans, New York City has tried everything to prevent rats from overrunning its streets—except accepting them.

“We can’t poison our way out of this, we cannot kill our way out of this,” Council member Shaun Abreu said while first introducing the bill in April. New York City’s rats will be dosed ...

BASF relaunches much loved rodenticide brand Neosorexa® with a new improved active. Leading pest control solutions manufacturer, BASF, [ is ...

The calls included two dead rodents found in poison ... said the rat issue remains largely contained to one part of Saddle Brook, a residential stretch of homes in about a 10-block radius around ...

The rodents had developed their hyper-intelligence while serving as lab rats in a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) experiment. The film had been adapted from an award-winning 1971 children’s ...