The cleanliness updates were included in the mayor’s preliminary management report, which was released Thursday and provides ...

Global warming is worsening droughts, making sea levels rise, and fueling deadly storms. Now scientists have a new problem to add to that list: Climate change is helping rat populations thrive in U.S.

We are on our heels and being pushed backward,” Jonathan Richardson, the study’s lead author and an ecologist at the ...

There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth but scientists are ...

Simmering urban temperatures are bad for humans. It's another story for rats, according to new research -- especially in ...

Rat infestation in many world cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington, and a new study blames climate change , ...

A new study is the first to link rising temperatures with booming rat populations in cities around the world. Rising seas, intensifying droughts, worsening floods — these are well-known effects of ...

A national survey of 1,140 miles of urban and rural sites in England found more than nine out of ten contained litter, while ...

Keep Britain Tidy surveyed hundreds of miles of rural and urban sites to gain insight into the level and type of litter found ...

The groups that clean up the city’s commercial corridors say they already do the Sanitation Department’s job for them and ...

Dead bodies litter the streets of eastern Congo’s Goma city after heavy explosions and gunfire were heard amid intensifying battles between Rwanda-backed rebels and pro-government forces.